12 Dimensions/Contents

People

People with their social graphs and profiles. Objects of People are persons from different social graphs with extendable profile fields. The FOAF ontology descriptions can be used here.

Object type: person, Object subtypes: student, employee, artist, member, individual body (vs. social body)

Attributes: User unique ID (e.g. WebID), user name, profile details, messaging space (e.g. inbox, wall), etc.

Actions: Send message, send object, ...

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

Services: global/local user authentication; search for profiles; offline messaging; storing, modifying person objects (crud operations)

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)

Groups

Dimension that holds objects which are representing different types of virtual or non-virtual groups of people united within a specific field. E.g. groups representing workplace, college, virtual or real organisation, community, etc.

Object type: group, Subtypes: team, social hub, flower seed, scrum team, circle of friends, etc.

Attributes: name, description, location, size, etc.

Relations: Each object contains also list of People objects as its members and
  possibly relations to other related objects (e.g. Services, Projects, Events, etc.)

Services:

Examples:

  • Virtual groups of people, social networks, discussion groups, forums, virtual games, etc. 
  • Non-virtual communities of people (sharing living or working space) - Global Ecovillage Network

Organizations

Undefined yet...
Object type: organization
 Subtypes: ngo, company, intentional community, social body

Communities

Undefined yet...
Object type: community
 Subtypes: tribe, neighborhood, citizens of X city, members of Y org, funs of Z club

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). 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).

Object type: place, Subtypes: couch, house, hotel, venue, city

Attributes: name, location, coordinates, description, etc.

Relations: Events (event calendar of the place), Services (provided at the place), People (as members), etc.

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

Examples: Google Places, Facebook Places

Events

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. hCalendar can be used as a simple, distributed calendaring and events format.

Object type: Event, Subtypes: group meeting, lecture, festival, concert, etc.

Attributes: Name, Description, past, present, upcoming.

Relations: 

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)

Examples:

  • Eventful, Eventbright

Travels

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

Data: Start point (Longitude, Latitude), Endpoint(Longitude, Latitude), Direction (NE,NW, 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).

Relations: 

Services: 

Examples:

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

Services

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.

Data: 

Relations:

Services: 

Examples:

  • Some professional services
  • Couch-sharing, garden-sharing, car-sharing, etc.: CouchSurfing, Hospitality Club, etc.
  • Community insurance: Friendsurance

Items

Undefined yet....
Subtypes:
 product - free/rent/sale, price value
 digital currency - currency unit : bitcoin, ripple: transparent banks, exchange,
 digital content – data, message, file, multimediamedia, web page
 food – category, ingredients, recipe,

Decision Making

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.

Data: Action proposals, votes

Relations: Connection with People, Groups

Services: 

Examples:

  • Avaaz - connecting citizens to drive sustainable political decisions, etc.

Knowledge

Undefined yet....
 Object type: informations
 Subtypes: text, article, data, wiki article, idea, etc.
 Structure: taxonomy