Re: W3C open content algorithms?

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
> >> > Technical & Publications Coordinator
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