Modeling Web of Trust with Web 2.0

Short Description
“Web of Trust” is one of the recognized goals for Web 2.0. It aims to make it possible for the people to take responsibility for what they publish on the web, including organizations, businesses and individual users. These objectives, among others, drive most of the technologies and protocols recently standardized by the governing bodies. One of the great advantages of Web infrastructure is decentralization of publication. The primary motivation behind Web 2.0 is to assist the people to add contents for Collective Intelligence (CI) while providing mechanisms to link content with people for evaluations and accountability of information. Such structure of contents will interconnect users and contents so that users can use contents to find participants and vice versa. This paper proposes conceptual information storage and linking model, based on decentralized information structure, that links contents and people together. The model uses FOAF, Atom, RDF and RDFS and can be used as a blueprint to develop Web 2.0 applications for any e-domain. However, primary target for this paper is online trust evaluation domain. The proposed model targets to assist the individuals to establish “Web of Trust” in online trust domain.

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W3C defined Universality as the universe of networkaccessible information, available through computer, phone or television etc. Universality aims to benefit the society by enabling new innovative forms of human communication and new opportunities to share and exchange knowledge. It is W3C’s primary goal to make information contribution and exchange available to all people, irrespective of their hardware, software, network infrastructure, language and geographical location. For this objective W3C aims to store and process information in text format such as XML.
Individuals currently share their knowledge on the Web in language intended for other users. Semantic Web aims to assist the web users to contribute information in ways that computers can understand, process and exchange. This will enable the web applications to perform tedious task of collating information from varied sources. And also assist users to find relevant information, such as, a movie review, scholarship posting for specific students, a book order, etc., quickly. The Semantic Web applications will use languages like Resource Description Framework (RDF) [1], Extensible Markup Language (XML) [2], XML Schema [3] and RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema (RDFS) [4].
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