Georg's Plan

Per Sandro's request, I'm copying this thread from the internal to the 
public listserv.

The elements of Georg's plan are available in StratML format at 
https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#EIUHFN

As we become aware of them, I'll look forward to adding others to my 
listing at https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#CWCG and particularly 
to seeing what result((s) this group plans to try to produce together.

Owen


On 9/5/2021 2:07 AM, Georg Rehm wrote:
> Dear Bob,
>
>> On 5. Sep 2021, at 07:33, Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us 
>> <mailto:bob@wyman.us>> wrote:
>>
>> Owen,
>> […]
>>
>> Of course, the existing W3C Web Annotation protocol is incomplete, 
>> for the desired purpose, since it doesn't define the "search" 
>> function needed to discover annotations that are related to a 
>> specific URL. Personally, I think it would make sense for this group 
>> to define Credibility Signals as annotations and to define the 
>> additional protocol needed to allow discovery of such annotations. If 
>> we were to do this, then your "myriad AI-enabled intermediaries" 
>> would be able to publish their assessment of Alice's claim in a 
>> manner that is more likely to be discovered by readers of Alice's 
>> claim -- if only people were to use annotation clients... Your 
>> AI-bots might even be enhanced to search out other posts with similar 
>> claims and annotate them as well.
>
> just as a follow-up to what you sketched in your email, this is an 
> idea that I described in the following paper a number of years ago:
>
> Georg Rehm. “An Infrastructure for Empowering Internet Users to handle 
> Fake News and other Online Media Phenomena”. In Georg Rehm and Thierry 
> Declerck, editors, /Language Technologies for the Challenges of the 
> Digital Age: 27th International Conference, GSCL 2017, Berlin, 
> Germany, September 13-14, 2017/, Proceedings, number 10713 in Lecture 
> Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 216-231, Cham, 
> Switzerland, 2018. Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und 
> Computerlinguistik e.V., Springer. 13/14 September 2017.
>
> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-73706-5_19.pdf 
> <https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-319-73706-5_19.pdf>
>
> The article proposes an infrastructure to address phenomena of modern 
> online media production, circulation and manipula- tion 
> by establishing a distributed architecture for automatic 
> processing and human feedback. The main building blocks of the 
> proposed infrastructure are: natively embedded into the World Wide 
> Web, Web Annotations, Metadata Standards, Tools and Services, 
> Decentralised Repositories and Tools, Aggregation of Annotations.
>
> Best regards,
> Georg
>
>>
>> bob wyman
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 12:14 AM Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net 
>> <mailto:Owen.Ambur@verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Sandro, thank for sharing these audio/video recordings.
>>
>>     Since Bob Wyman is troubled by the lack of capability to express
>>     to the world that he is not a communist, the purpose of this
>>     message is to offer him a potential means of relief:
>>
>>         Publish his plan(s) on the Web in StratML Part 1, Strategic
>>         Plan (ISO 17469-1) format.
>>
>>     If he were to do so, it would be fairly easy for myriad
>>     AI-enabled intermediary services to pretty well establish whether
>>     he is a communist or not, assuming of course that he honestly
>>     documents his vision, mission, values, goals, objectives, and
>>     stakeholders -- as best he understands them.
>>
>>     With reference to Leonard Rosenthol's comment about verification,
>>     that depends upon whether performance indicators of actual
>>     results are reliably documented and shared -- preferably in
>>     records published in an open, standard, machine-readable format
>>     like StratML Part 2, Performance Plans & Reports (formerly
>>     ANSI/AIIM 22:2017).
>>
>>     Lacking such indicators anyone's guesses and "assertions"
>>     [claims] are as good as anyone else's.  Even if Bob does openly
>>     represent himself as a card-carrying communist, that alone
>>     doesn't truly make him one  For example, he could be working as
>>     an undercover agent for the FBI ... or a spy for fascists ... or
>>     a college professor with tenure in an ivory tower insulated from
>>     reality.  Or perhaps he may /mistakenly/ believe that he is a
>>     communist.
>>
>>     What matters is the degree to which he actually participates in
>>     commandeering other people's property, discouraging personal
>>     initiative, denying personal responsibility, destroying economic
>>     incentives, and making everyone poorer, i.e., what real
>>     communists do.
>>
>>     With respect to your concluding comment, I look forward to
>>     learning whether we can do more together than merely "attend a
>>     few meetings and exchange E-mail messages".  Perhaps I'll have a
>>     better sense of that when I've had a chance to listen to
>>     recording of the meet-the-candidates meeting.  If so, I'll
>>     "scribe" my understanding the the group's plan in StratML format.
>>
>>     Owen
>>
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