Re: A proposal for a decentralized, peer-reviewed academic journal system for the Web

On 20 January 2013 21:57, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> On 01/20/2013 02:40 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> >> What sorts of pieces of information need to be added to a PaySwarm
> >> identity to trust its use for academic publishing? Perhaps a list
> >> of articles published by the identity? Review comments for all
> >> other papers that have been reviewed by the identity? Areas of
> >> research that other’s have certified that the identity is an expert
> >> on? This is pretty basic Web-of-trust stuff, but it’s important to
> >> understand that PaySwarm has this sort of stuff baked into the core
> >> of the design.
> >
> > Perhaps an endorsement system can be handled using linked data to
> > increase your web reputation.
>
> Here's the list of things we have thought about including for PaySwarm
> identities. It would be up to the customer to expose the information on
> each of their identities.
>
> PaySwarm Authorities could make these endorsements fairly easily:
>
> * A bank account has been verified for the identity.
> * A credit card has been verified for the identity.
> * A mobile phone number has been verified for the identity.
> * The identity has been continuously active for X months/years.
>
> PaySwarm Authorities could make these endorsements fairly easily, but
> we're concerned about the information being used to target particular
> identities:
>
> * The identity has done X $1+ transactions. The identity has done Y
>   $10+ transactions. The identity has done Z $50+ transactions.
>
> PaySwarm Authorities could make these endorsements, but we wary of the
> human cost of implementing the feature:
>
> * A mailing address has been verified for the identity.
> * A government-issued ID has been verified for the identity.
> * A drivers license has been verified for the identity.
> * A voice/video recording has been verified for the identity and is
>   kept on record.
>
> > Maybe we can also pull in things like a bachelors degree or phd as
> > part of the reputation.
>
> That would be great - how would we verify the information other than
> having professionals call a university to verify the information? It
> could be that if you wanted this endorsement, you would submit $25 to
> the PaySwarm Authority and the PA would hire somebody to make the call
> to the university to verify the degree. Or, you would use an accredited
> verification party and the verification party would digitally sign a
> claim that you could tack on to your identity. It would look something
> like this:
>
> {
>   "@context": [
>     "http://purl.org/payswarm/v1",
>     "http://purl.org/endorsement/v1"
>   ],
>   "id": "http://dev.payswarm.com/i/manu",
>   "endorsement": [{
>     "claim": {
>       "type": "EducationLevel",
>       "degree": "Bachelor's",
>       "field": "Computer Science",
>       "date": "2001",
>       "university": "Virginia Tech",
>       "locality": "Blacksburg",
>       "state": "Virginia",
>       "country": "US"
>     },
>     "signature": {
>       "type": "GraphSignature2011",
>       "creator": "http://endorsement.example.com/keys#key-5",
>       "signatureValue": "OGQz3Q3OD...IyOWM32NjI="
>     }
>   },
>   ...]
> }
>

yes exactly, universities already offer these certificates in paper form

what I think would be needed is a digital form from the university, or
maybe a notary to examine the certificate and make the verification?

tho I think on places like linked in or a cv you just state it yourself,
and people can verify it later ...


>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: Aaron Swartz, PaySwarm, and Academic Journals
> http://manu.sporny.org/2013/payswarm-journals/
>
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