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

Manu,

I hope what I said did not come off wrong. You are certainly putting a lot
of  effort in this. Thanks for all of the links.

-Brent

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com>wrote:

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