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12 Dimensions

2018-01-17T22:19:23Z

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==OMPlanet 12 Dimensions==
{{:12_Dimensions/Description}}

{{:12_Dimensions/Architecture}}

==See also==
*[[:Category:OMPlanet| About OMPlanet]]
*[[Network_of_Social_Networks]]
*[[Source Codes]]

[[Category:OMPlanet]]

12 Dimensions/Contents

2018-01-17T22:19:11Z

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==Draft Overview of the OMPLanet Social Graph with 12 Dimensions==

We describe the OMPlanet network ecosystem similar to an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science) ontology]. We specify the OMPLanet Social Graph with '''a set of 12 dimensions each of them representing a specific group of ''social objects'' (e.g people, places, events, etc.).

Each of the 12 dimensions is organised into a specific data structure that can be provided/hosted by different local/personal clouds with corresponding web service interfaces. Usually each object is given a unique URI and it has different types of relations with other objects of the same dimension or in relation with objects from possibly all other dimensions.

Used terms:

*''Dimension'': A general descriptive name for the group of object classes in a specific sub-domain, represents the top concept.

*''Type'': The specific class describing the set of objects with the same type. E.g. the class ''Person'' to specify all the objects in the domain ''People''.

*''Relationships'': denotes a relationship between objects, one object can reference to another object/s from the same dimension or from other dimensions: e.g. ''People'' object can have relations as ''friend'' or ''co-worker'' to several other ''People'' objects from the same dimension and as well can have several references to ''Places'' objects with relation types as ''work place'', ''home'' or ''meeting place'', or to ''Services'' objects with relations as ''needed'' or ''offering'', or references to ''Events'' objects as ''participant'' or ''organiser'', etc.

*''Data Properties'' or "Atributes": Parameters that objects can have. Holds an object's member variable specific to its dimension: e.g. ''People'' object can be a ''user profile'' with the attributes ''profile name'', ''unique ID'', ''interest tags'', etc.

*''Actions'': the ''verbs'' which show what action is possible to do with the specific object. E.g. share, comment, tag, link, buy, join, help, etc.

*''Services'': describes specific types of web services that are related to the object class: e.g. social network, geographic map service, etc.

*''Structures'': describes the data model or the common structure handling with the objects of the specific dimension. E.g. ''social graph'' for ''people'', ''calendar'' for ''events'', ''map'' for ''places'', ''timeline'' for ''projects'', etc.

*''Schemas'': provide a data-modelling vocabulary for RDF data.

===People===
People with their social graphs and profiles. People objects are persons from different social graphs with extendable profile fields (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology) FOAF] ontology descriptions can be used here).

'''Type''': ''Person''
Subtypes: student, employee, artist, member, legal entity

'''Relationships''':
Relation types: friend, knows, in relationship, group member, from place, owns.
Relation objects: list of friends, office address, etc.

'''Data Properties''': User unique ID (e.g. WebID), name, address, contact, interests, competence, responsibility, messaging space (e.g. inbox, wall), etc.

'''Actions''': Send message, send media object, invite, etc.

'''Services''': distributed/central user authentication; search for profiles; messaging; etc.

'''Structures''': social graph, social network, etc.

'''Schemas''':
• http://schema.org/Person

'''Examples''':
• Federated social networks - StausNet, PeerSon, Diaspora, etc.
• FOAF - a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects.
• WebID - A way to uniquely identify a person, company, organization, or other agent using a URI.
• OAuth - an open standard for authorization, allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists)

===Places===
A place as a logical description of an area such as a park, university, organization, etc. (with or without geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude). [http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/ POI specifications] by W3C are preferred to be used to representation of the Places objects.

Places objects will enable users to instantly form communities based on location, to identify specific places and to provide location-based histories (such as every important event that occurred at a specific address).

'''Type''': ''Place''
Subtypes: couch, house, hotel, venue, city

'''Relationships''': Events (event calendar of the place), Services (provided at the place), People (as owners, visitors, etc.), etc.

'''Data Properties''': name, location, coordinates, description, etc.

'''Actions''': geotag, add description, add comment, ...

'''Services''': Web based maps with layers representing OMPlanet objects (Google Maps, Bing Mpas, etc.).

'''Structures''': Map, building plan, geographic map, etc.

'''Schemas''':
• http://schema.org/Place

'''Examples''': Google Places, Facebook Places

===Events, Activites===
For self-organized activities or events. People can publish real-time information about their current activity in their current location, initiate new activities, organize events or look for real-time events happening around them, or publish a demand for a specific type of event in a given area.

OMPlanet also provides distributed calendars to share and search events globally. [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar hCalendar] can be used as a simple, distributed calendaring and events format.

'''Type''': ''Event''
Subtypes: group meeting, lecture, festival, concert, etc.

'''Relationships''': createdBy, organizedBy, inPlace, etc.

'''Data Properties''': Name, Description, past, present, upcoming.

'''Services''': Services to publish events, register to an existing event or demand/propose future events.
- Search for events by time, location, performer or descriptive keyword.
- Alerts which automatically notify users when events matching their search criteria are added or modified.
- Post feedback/question by People to past/upcoming events.
- Events Calendar (Aggregation and user friendly visualization of selective calendars from the global calendar
selected by a user according to his/her interests. subscription to such personalized views of calendars.) (e.g. Eventful)

'''Structures''': Calendar, program

'''Schemas''':
• http://schema.org/Event

'''Examples''':
• [http://eventful.com| Eventful], [http://www.eventbrite.com| Eventbright]

===Collectives, Organizations===
Dimension that holds objects which are representing different types of virtual or non-virtual groups of people united within a specific field.
E.g. communities with many members, tribes, neighborhood, a city, groups representing workplace, college, virtual or real organisation, NGOs, etc.

'''Type''': ''Group'' same as ''Organization''
Subtypes: Organization (members), City (citizens), Club (funs), Tribe, Neighborhood, NGO, Company, Corporation, team, social hub, circle of friends, company, corporation, social body, etc.

'''Relationships''': group members, linked groups, (each object contains also list of People objects as its members and
possibly relations to other related objects, e.g. Services, Projects, Events, etc.)

'''Data Properties''': name, description, location, size, etc.

'''Actions''': join, leave, send message, send object, ...

'''Services''':

'''Structures''':

'''Schemas''':
• http://schema.org/Organization

'''Examples''':
• Virtual groups of people, social networks, discussion groups, forums, virtual games, etc.
• Non-virtual communities of people (sharing living or working space) - [http://gen.ecovillage.org| Global Ecovillage Network]

===Collective Governance===
Undefined yet....

These are the instruments to enable participatory decision making and acting processes. Place where multiple individuals can collectively vote and decide upon certain actions that the community might benefit, which, however, have an associated cost making it implausible that any one individually can or will undertake and solve it alone.

It can be only collection of votes to rise the public awareness or find consensus upon issues but not always the instruments to guarantee the complete realization of decisions.

'''Type''': ''Decision''
Subtypes: Action proposal, vote, etc

'''Properties''': Connection with People, Groups

'''Services''': Power organization/distribution, politics, decision making, ownership, property, rights, rules

'''Examples''':
• [http://www.avaaz.org Avaaz] - connecting citizens to drive sustainable political decisions, etc.

===Projects===
To be defined...

'''Type''': project
Subtypes: project, task, activities, practice, sport game, etc.

===Media, Communication===
Undefined yet....

'''Type''': ''Item''
Subtypes:

'''Data Properties''':

'''Examples''':

===Transport, Travels===
Travel sharing, route sharing and planning. For example car sharing on the go, with alerts on mobile devices, can allow drivers to take travelers if destinations match. This can reduce the amount of cars driving 3/4 empty.

'''Type''': ''Travel Plan''
Subtypes: transport or traveler, transportation or trip

'''Relationships''':

'''Data Properties''': Start point, Destination (from A to B), date/time, Longitude, Latitude, Direction, etc.,
Available Places(how many more can join), Means of Travel(Car, Bike, etc),
Purpose of Travel(Description), Places to Visit(Places objects), Traveling People(People objects).

'''Actions''':

'''Services''':

'''Structures''':

'''Schemas''':

'''Examples''':
• Travel sharing: GPS rout matches, etc.
• Place-to-stay sharing: CouchSurfing, Airbnb
• P2P Car Sharing: ...

===Needs, Offers===
Service exchange markets. All kinds of services offered P2P, voluntary based or paid. The currency can be the real money, virtual currencies or the 'spend-time' as a currency unit.

'''Type''': ''Service''
Subtypes: cleaning, accounting, product, car, food, etc.

'''Relationships''':

'''Data Properties''': free/rent/sale, price value, virtual/real, price per hour, available district

'''Actions''':

'''Services'''

'''Structures'''

'''Schemas'''

'''Examples''':
• Some professional services
• Couch-sharing, garden-sharing, car-sharing, etc.: [http://couchsurfing.org CouchSurfing], Hospitality Club, etc.
• Community insurance: [https://www.friendsurance.de/home?hippo=1&_ign=1| Friendsurance]
• Buying, selling, exchanging: eBay, etc.
• Free-markets of material goods.

===Finance===
Distributed and digital currencies and currency authorisation/exchange systems (banks 3.0). Transparent and fair lending structures, time banks and non-monetary value exchange systems.

Peer-to-peer currencies with no central authority that issues new money or tracks transactions and where these tasks are managed collectively by the distributed network.

Monetary systems that encourage people to exchange directly within their local communities with fair and transparent value exchange system, rather than centralising the resources in the global private banks managed by corporate entities driven by the profit of only few shareholders.'

'''Type''': ''Money'' same as ''Currency''
Subtypes: digital currency, state currency unit

'''Services''': bitcoin, ripple, transparent banks, value exchange systems

'''Examples''':
• Digital currencies: [http://bitcoin.org| Bitcoin], Etherium, Ripple
• Crowdfunding: ....
• Peer to Peer lending, Microfinancing: [http://www.kiva.org/| KIVA]
• Community Powered Capital: [http://vencorps.com VenCorps]
• Crowd funded mortgage: [http://www.crowdhypotheek.nl| Crowdhyptheek]
• Folk Banks: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIR_Bank| WIR Bank], [http://www.jak.se| JAK Medlemsbank]
• Currency Management System [https://www.ac.upc.edu/projects/cms (CMS)]
• The initial '''Visa''' card system designed by Dee Hock which was a revolutionary example of such an attempt
• MonedaBcn, a social network created to build a social currency alternative to money in the area of Barcelona and surroundings.

- https://barcelona.ecoxarxes.cat/ Interest free, owned by members, all transactions are transparent and trackable. It is possible to use it for funding projects - projects can publish public list of needed resources and volunteers can donate and choose for what need their contribution is going to be used and track it.

===Games===
Not defined yet...

'''Type''': ''Community''
Subtypes:

'''Relationships''': members, groups, resources,

'''Data Properties''': name, description, etc.

'''Actions''': play, join, leave, share, ...

'''Services''':

'''Structures''':

'''Schemas''':
• http://

'''Examples''':

===P2P Web Services===
P2P hosted files, websites and web services. Undefined yet....

'''Type''': ''Data''
Subtypes: text, article, binary data, wiki article, idea, message, multimedia file, web page, web service, etc.

'''Services/Structures''': directory, wiki, web site, personal data stores (e.g. Project Danube), etc.

12 Dimensions/Description

2018-01-17T22:05:43Z

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The '''[[:Category:OMPlanet|OMPlanet network ecosystem]]''' is a distributed model of interlinked data systems that expose, exchange and share data among different systems in the network and outside of its boundaries based on decentralized standard descriptions.

OMPlanet systems are similar to distributed local/personal clouds each of them managed and owned by its community members. Each OMPLanet system describes it's own data structure and models of interaction with other heterogeneous systems and data sources. One of the main objectives is to define a compact all-inclusive set of data models using decentralised standard descriptions to achieve data portability and toolchain interoperability among different web services, database systems and applications across the ecosystem.

We specify the '''[[:12_Dimensions/Contents| OMPLanet Social Graph]]''' with a set of 12 dimensions each of them representing a specific group of ''social objects'' (e.g people, places, events, etc.).

Sonar - Project Draft

2011-04-10T21:06:19Z

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[[File:Sonar.png|thumb|200px|Sonar]]
=Definition=
{{:Sonar/Definition}}

=Description=
Sonar provides new and efficient ways for '''socializing''', '''organizing events''' and '''travelling'''. Using their mobile phones or desktop PCs users can:

- find each other based on their location and interests and securely communicate with each other using the P2P social networking/microblogging features.

- share real-time information about their current activity and location, organize new events, look for real-time events around them, or publish a demand for a specific type of event for the specific area.

- share their ongoing or future travel plans. If they are driving a car and willing to share available free seats the Sonar can assist them in real time to find people moving the same way (similarly the Sonar can assist hitch-hikers to find a ride).

=Features=

===Simple user interface===
- Almost invisible user interface, intuitive, minimalistic. 
- Visualization of the geo-radar. 

===Social networking/microblogging===
- Decentralized authentication. 
- Personal profiles. 
- Friends list/groups. 
- Private messaging. 
- Wall posts, microblogs. 
- Profile search by name/location/keyword/etc. 

===Event/activity sharing===
- Organize events or activities: party, training, exhibition, festival, etc. 
- Publish event demands. 
- Join/subscribe to public events. 
- Search events by title/keyword/status/location/time. 
- etc.

===Travel/transport sharing===
- let hitch-hikers know that there are available car sits from location A to B (real-time or at the specified date). 
- let drivers know that you need to go from location A to B (real-time or at the specified date). 
- share travel plans. 
- share travel experiences, read/publish into geocoded wiki articles. The Wikitravel project is of special interest: 
*[http://wikitravel.org Wikitravel] - ''Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far it has 24,445 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.''

===Location sharing, real-time map and AR objects===
- Display current location on a map (if enabled by user's privacy options). 
- Publish/search places of interest: coffee houses, hotels, accommodation rentals, etc. 
- Publish geonotes: users can leave a note at a specific location for themselves or other people which they will receive next time being there. 
- Manual user checkins into the places and defined areas on the map. 

===Location triggers===
- Automatic location trigger to check-in the user into user's predefined list of areas/places. 
- Automatic triggering of a specified callback URL when user enters or leaves a specific location. 
- Automatic check-ins on other geo-social platforms using open APIs (Foursquare, Facebook Places, Latitude, etc). 

===Radar with alerts/proximity notifications===
To eliminate the necessity to query for a specific real-time object repeatedly users can place alerts or subscribe to proximity notifications for the following: 
- If there are people matching specific search criteria in near proximity. 
- If there are places-of-interest matching the given search keyword/tag. 
- If there is a ''car with free space''/''hitch-hiker going to a given destination''. 
- If there are other travel plans match the given destinations/activities/interests. 
- If there are non-private events matching the given keywords/tags/dates/location/status/etc. 

===Open APIs===
- Provide open access APIs and web services. 

=Architecture=

===P2P social network platform===
There are already several protocols and free software implementations for federated/decentralized/P2P social networking and micro-blogging platforms and Sonar intends to integrate the existing best practises. 
But there no solutions yet for having distributed/P2P real-time maps and location sharing services without the use of centralized web services. So for the current stage project Sonar will have to provide some non distributable central web services as well. 

===Real-time geo-map===
[[File:real-time_map.jpg|thumb|200px|Proximity areas on a real-time map]]
Sonar has to provide real-time map of:
User locations: GPS-enabled mobile phones which are connected to the internet will send data to the server at regular intervals. If there is no GPS the location data can be calculated from wifi spots and cell towers with sufficient approximation. 
Event locations: events happening at a specified time span at a specified location. 
Places-of-interest: places named by users not as street addresses but locations like "Home", "Dood's Club" etc. 

===Augmented reality layers===
Sonar has to provide map layers of AR objects, and aggregate other 3-th party AR layers into the map (Google Maps and Layar provide web services and open APIs to access their user contributed database of places-of-interest on different layers). 
 
 
 

=Promotion Plan=
- Build testbeds to demonstrate the software on one or more usage areas. 
- For the start find one specific niche, a community and offer the new networking opportunity to them creating their unique social graph. 
- Offer collaboration to mobile operator companies. If possible use the contact list of user's mobile phone, identify the numbers via the mobile service provider and use the social graph of the mobile users as a kick-start for our social network. 
- Offer solutions to universities and start networking the students. 

=Evaluation=
The growth and potential of the mobile market is really amazing. A new report from Juniper Research says that the number of subscribers using mobile Internet services will rise from 577 million currently, to top 1.7 billion by 2013, spurred by demand for collaborative applications known collectively as 'web 2.0,' and greater 2.5/3G penetration. Putting that figure into some context, a report from Gartner earlier this week had said that the worldwide PC base would reach 2 billion by 2014 - so internet access by mobile phones will represent at around 50% of the total internet usage. Source: [http://www.cellular-news.com/story/32026.php?source=newsletter Cellular News].

*[http://www.cts.cv.ic.ac.uk/html/ResearchActivities/publicationDetails.asp?PublicationID=1350 Investigating the willingness of drivers to share space with pedestrians]

=Related Endeavors=
{{:OmPlanet/Related Endeavors}}

=License=
Sonar is a [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html free software] application developing by the community efforts for the community. It is available under GNU AGPL License.

*[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html GNU AGPL] - The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.

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