The massive amounts of data reflecting social and communicative behavior produced by social media, such as Wikipedia, creates an huge opportunity for exploring some key social scientific related to structures and interaction patterns online. Wikipedia’s ability and willingness to share data about user behavior collected over long periods of time provides a golden opportunity for tracking spontaneous emergence of division of labor, group hierarchies, or collaborative norms. Our project uses Ter...
An intellectually "green" technology, Thought Ark utilizes the idle cycles of the research process to create criteria of relevance for scholarly resources. It is an open source, free web application and collaborative space that utilizes the search behaviors of the users to determine the value of various bibliographic resources. It is at the same time a concept based social networking space. Users can identify people with similar interests and interact with them and their resources. Finally, th...
