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 Class: Person
 Subtypes: student, employee, artist, member, individual body (vs. social body)
 
Object Properties:
 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 object, ...

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)

Groups, 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. groups representing workplace, college, virtual or real organisation, ngo, etc.

Object Class: Group same as Organization
 Subtypes: team, social hub, circle of friends, ngo, company, corporation, social body, etc.

Object Properties: 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) - Global Ecovillage Network

Communities

Undefined yet...

Object Class: Community
 Subtypes: tribe, neighborhood, citizens of X city, members of Y org, funs of Z club

Projects

Undefined yet...
Object Class: project
 Subtypes: project, task, activities, practice, sport game, etc.

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 Class: Place
 Subtypes: couch, house, hotel, venue, city

Object Properties: Events (event calendar of the place), Services (provided at the place), People (as members), 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

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 Class: Event
 Subtypes: group meeting, lecture, festival, concert, etc.

Object Properties: createdBy, organizedBy, inPlace, etc.

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

Structure: Calendar, program

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:

Schemas:
 • http://schema.org/Event

Examples:

  • Eventful, Eventbright

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.

Object Class: Travel Plan
 Subtypes: transport or traveler, transportation or trip

Object Properties: 

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: ...

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.

Object Class: Service
 Subtypes: cleaning, accounting, etc.

Object Properties:

Data Properties: virtual/real, price per hour, available district

Actions: 

Services

Structures

Schemas

Examples:

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

Items

Undefined yet....

Object Class: Item
 Subtypes: product, car, food, etc

Data Properties: free/rent/sale, price value

Examples:

  • Buying, selling, exchanging: eBay, etc.
  • Free-markets of material goods.
  • Democratizing 3D printing: Bits From Bytes
  

Money

Distributed and digital currencies and corrency authorisation/exhchamge systems (banks 2.0), transparent and fair lending or currency exchange systems - with virtual, real currencies or non-monetary value exchange systems and structures.

'Peer-to-peer currencies have no central authority that issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the distributed network.

Such systems encourage people to work for friends and neighbors in local communities with fair and transparent value exchange, rather than centralizing the resources in the banks managed by corporate entities driven by the profit of only few shareholders.'

Undefined yet...

Object Class: Mmoney same as Currency
 Subtypes: digital currency,  state currency unit

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

Examples:

  • Digital currencies: Bitcoin, [Ripple]
  • Crowdfunding: ....
  • Peer to Peer lending, Microfinancing: KIVA
  • Community Powered Capital: VenCorps
  • Crowd funded mortgage: Crowdhyptheek
  • Folk Banks: WIR Bank, JAK Medlemsbank
  • Currency Management System (CMS)
  • The Visa card system designed by Dee Hock the 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 recources and volunteers can donate and choose for what need their contribution is going to be used and track it.

Decision Making

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.

Object Class: Decision
 Subtypes: Action proposal, vote, etc

Object Properties: Connection with People, Groups

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

Examples:

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

Knowledge, Data

Undefined yet....

Object Class: Knowledge same as Data
 Subtypes: text, article, data, wiki article, idea, message, multimediamedia file, web page, etc.

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