RE: applications and vocabularies enabling public debates

Hi Oscar and all,
Debategraph is a quite complex application that enable public debate on-line following some theoretic model of argumentation. Other sites, the Economist for example, let their users do debates on any argument following other, more simple in that case, model of argumentation. Summarizing, someone in a community raise an issue and others make their position based on arguments. Others yet can approve one of the proposed positions and finally vote. All this can be done on any issue. What is of interest for a person as a citizen is discussing a policy before or after it has been voted by an administrative entity. This means that she must be able to follow the policy lifecycle. One interesting site that that let users follow policies and polcy-makers' activity is govtrack.us. Govtrack.us offers bulk downloads of data in the RDF format, APIs and also a SPARQL endpoint. A possible use case about e-participation showing the usefulness of interoperability, enabled by the W3C SemWeb technologies, is one in which a citizen or policy-maker raise an issue on debategraph about a policy linked through govtrack.us. 


Luigi





From: oscar.azanon@vitruviosistemas.com
To: josema@w3.org; selmi_luigi@hotmail.com
CC: box1_price@debategraph.org; vassilios.peristeras@deri.org; public-egov-ig@w3.org; david@debategraph.org; john.breslin@nuigalway.ie; siegfried.handschuh@deri.org; John.Sheridan@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:27:04 +0200
Subject: RE: applications and vocabularies enabling public debates




















Hi all,

 

I find the debategraph concept and implementation a really interesting
proposal .. 

 

Can anyone in the group help identify / propose an scenario where
debategraph would be used in a concrete, useful interoperability scenario? Also,
are ontologies RDF based?

 

Thanks everybody.

 

Cheers

 

Ocr

 





De: public-egov-ig-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-egov-ig-request@w3.org] En nombre de Jose M. Alonso

Enviado el: lunes, 20 de abril de 2009 13:54

Para: Luigi Selmi

CC: box1_price@debategraph.org; Vassilios Peristeras; eGovIG;
david@debategraph.org; john.breslin@nuigalway.ie; siegfried.handschuh@deri.org;
John Sheridan; Oscar Azanon

Asunto: Re: applications and vocabularies enabling public debates





 



Hi Luigi, all,





 





Sorry for reacting so late to this. I've created ISSUE-22
and attaching this one to it.





I think this is also related to interoperability, so also
attaching to ISSUE-21.





Copying John and Oscar as main authors of those sections to
lead the discussion and see how this could fit in the doc. I'm personally all
for adding as much useful examples as possible.





 





Best,





Jose.





 



 





El 01/04/2009, a las 16:35, Luigi Selmi escribió:











Hi David and All,

It would be very interesting having a look of the public ontology that you use
or could implement based on your data model. I didn't find any document about
that ontology on the Debategraph site. Are you going to implement it ? And in
which language RDFS, OWL ? Do you have any plan to set up a SPARQL endpoint
other than the API in order to make queries over the maps? 





Luigi















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CC: selmi_luigi@hotmail.com; public-egov-ig@w3.org; david@debategraph.org; john.breslin@nuigalway.ie;siegfried.handschuh@deri.org

From: box1_price@debategraph.org

To: vassilios.peristeras@deri.org

Subject: Re: applications and vocabularies enabling public debates

Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:15:03 +0100



Thanks, Vassilios and Luigi. 





 





A couple of quick updates:





 





(1) We are working on an API to open up the public maps - and I
would welcome feedback from the group on any specific characteristics /
features you would like to see with / from the API.





 





(2) It is straightforward for us to implement different ontologies
in Debategraph (in addition to the public one we have three more operating
behind the scenes - as part of our internal architecture). So if anyone is
interested in experimenting with this, let me know. We plan to add a UI soon to
allow you to define and implement your own ontologies directly via the
web. 





 





Finally, if anyone is D.C. based and would like to meet, I'll be
in Washington towards the end of this month. 





 





David





 







David Price



Co-founder





Debategraph





Tel: +44 (0) 20 8144 2860





Web: debategraph.org





Blog: opentopersuasion.com





Twitter: twitter.com/debategraph





 









On 1 Apr 2009, at 12:26, "Peristeras, Vassilios"
<vassilios.peristeras@deri.org> wrote:











Hello Luigi, all.



 



I think that Obama’s administration takes steps in fast pace
towards semantics.





OMB and GSA chief architects talk about semantics and vocabularies,
explicitly mentioning SIOC (see links below).





SIOC was developed by John Breslin’s team in NUIG/DERI, Galway
(happy about this ;-)





We currently work with debategraph in the WAVE project and try to
see how we could link semantics to arguments visualization tools. The idea is
to create a SIOC-Opinion extension.





If the group has an interest on this, we could provide some
relevant info or even a use case if it is not too late.





I cc David Price from debategraph and some colleagues from DERI.



 



Best regards,





Vassilios



 



http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/19/obama-groundbreaking-use-semantic-web/





http://www.slideshare.net/george.thomas.name/recoverygov-1118057





http://www.slideshare.net/george.thomas.name/recoverygov-1118057/8





http://www.slideshare.net/george.thomas.name/transparency-transformation-presentation/5



 

 











From: public-egov-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:public-egov-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Luigi Selmi

Sent: 01 April 2009 13:28

To: public-egov-ig@w3.org

Subject: applications and
vocabularies enabling public debates





 



Hi All,

I think participation and C2G lack some explanations. Participation can be
viewed in very different ways. People can interact directly with the government
or between them in order to build a consensus around a position that can be
voted and proposed to the government. The first way can lead to a form of
populism, the second way is what is generally viewed as a better and democratic
kind of participation. Participation on the Web means doing public debates on
line. On a debate people should be able to raise issues, write positions or
arguments, post links to articles, blog post, videos. All these data must be
interoperable. Debategraph [1] is a good example of an on line application that
enable participation. Unfortunately it's not possible to have the ontology/vocabulary
or a kind of data model and no bulk download of the data. It would be useful to
point in the document to some vocabulary that could support participation like
SIOC [2] and maybe SWAN [3]. An article that can be put as a reference about
debates and argumentation is "Mass argumentation and the semantic
web" [4].





Luigi





[1] http://debategraph.org/

[2] http://sioc-project.org/

[3] http://swan.mindinformatics.org/

[4] http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/papers/2007119/MassArgumentationRahwanV6I1.pdf









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journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." Lao Tzu











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