Re: W3C open content algorithms?

Hi Martynas,

I agree with that philosophy and am keen to avoid redundancy.

However, I'm still wondering how a SPARQL solution fits into something like
this. As with many content sites, we have a limited set of articles which
would be available at stage 1) (below) because:

a) we would still limit our selection mainly to newer articles
b) it's more performant on a web site with many users

So I'm envisaging, at point 3), a client-side JS app where the site returns
a list of articles with metadata, which are then parsed according to user
preferences, and remaining data (e.g. images) fetched. Is SPARQL the best
way to manage this?


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Thanks again for you interest!


Matthew Linares
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On 29 July 2016 at 14:35, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org> wrote:

> Matthew,
>
> if something is possible to implement with SPARQL, then I think in
> terms of standardization, tool and community support the answer is
> definitely SPARQL -- both in this case and in general.
>
> There is nothing stopping you from creating a recommendation that
> defines some "standard" SPARQL queries or query templates. Similar to
> this library: http://semwebquality.org/ontologies/dq-constraints.html
>
> We need few core standards with many implementations, not a lot of
> standards with few implementations.
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Matthew Linares
> <matthew.linares@opendemocracy.net> wrote:
> > Thanks again Martynas.
> >
> > Do you think that's the best way to do it, or preferable to make this a
> > dedicated standard to be recommended as best practice and to encourage
> open
> > algorithms. I would say the latter.
> >
> > This also makes the case:
> >
> https://www.opendemocracy.net/100ideasforthebbc/blog/2015/09/14/create-public-service-algorithms/
> >
> >
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> > On 29 July 2016 at 13:25, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I do not know of any specific parameters, I but I am certain this
> >> logic could could be expressed as a SPARQL query, if you have all your
> >> content and entities (basically everything) interconnected as part of
> >> an RDF graph.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Linares
> >> <matthew.linares@opendemocracy.net> wrote:
> >> > Thanks Martynas,
> >> >
> >> > Something like SIOC would be a dependency for what I'm talking about,
> >> > although I'm thinking of a framework of user/editor preferences for
> how
> >> > to
> >> > order posts (and other content) in e.g. a feed/homepage. The Facebook
> >> > news
> >> > feed, for example, is famously ordered according to an algorithm, with
> >> > user-specific weightings driving its actions. It's that algorithm
> that I
> >> > think should follow standards, and be open, especially as we see more
> of
> >> > them curating web content.
> >> >
> >> > It could be used by websites to order content, those sites could allow
> >> > users
> >> > to alter their choices, users could store it client side to order what
> >> > they
> >> > see on a site, etc.
> >> >
> >> > Parameters to give weighting to content might include:
> >> >
> >> > - user interests (by keyword)
> >> > - content recency
> >> > - author category (individual, org, advertiser, contributor, friend of
> >> > user)
> >> > - length
> >> > - medium/format
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Do you know of anything like that?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks again!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Matthew Linares
> >> > Technical & Publications Coordinator
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> >> > On 26 July 2016 at 10:30, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> What about SIOC? http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Matthew Linares
> >> >> <matthew.linares@opendemocracy.net> wrote:
> >> >> > Dear all,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'm looking for an open algorithm project where standards are
> defined
> >> >> > for
> >> >> > presenting content e.g. to order/curate/customise the Facebook news
> >> >> > feed, or
> >> >> > the home page of a newspaper, or any content stream.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I thought the W3C working groups would be a likely home for such a
> >> >> > project,
> >> >> > and found this to be one of the most relevant groups, but haven't
> >> >> > found
> >> >> > anything obviously applicable yet. Perhaps someone can point me in
> >> >> > the
> >> >> > right
> >> >> > direction?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks for your work!
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Matthew Linares
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