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The Catalogue can empower collaboration at the intersection of technology and society by helping people find potential collaborators based on a person's work, the people and organizations a person has collaborated with, the works a person has cited or mentioned, or the topics a person has written on; and\n\n2. The Sense-making Markers can serve as the foundation for any group that engages in collective sense-making processes (and broadly, collective intelligence processes), by turning raw data into actionable insights. The Sense-making Markers encourage collaboration by having individuals and groups come together to define their own sense-making markers (in effect, creating a controlled vocabulary) for their particular context(s), compliant with the sense-making marker data model, which can then be used to annotate (i.e., mark) and organize objects in their information environment (people, content, etc.), share these annotations with third party information systems that comply with the sense-making marker data model, and use the annotations to support any algorithm for distributing attention over objects in the information environment (e.g., a feed-ranking algorithm on a social media platform). ", "hidden": false, "question": "How is the project CollabTech?", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The targeted user groups for the Catalogue are:\n\n- Researchers\n- Businesses\n- The Public\n- Librarians\n- Publishers\n- Educators\n- Writers\n- Marketers\n- Developers\n\nThe problems the Catalogue addresses includes:\n- The time and effort needed to stay up-to-date with the ever-growing amount of digital media at the intersection of technology and society is too effortful and time-consuming for any one individual or small team to manage\n- There are insights that are trapped in digital media that may not reach the people who can get the most out of them because they cannot find them.\n- It is very difficult to determine who is knowledgable (and their level of expertise) about a particular topic at the intersection of technology and society.\n- The lack of a central repository for digital media at the intersection of technology and society limits discoverability of knowledge about current and future issues and possible solutions to them\n- There is a need to know how people are interacting with digital media at the intersection of technology and society to determine the impact of digital media on issues at the intersection of technology and society, and how people and organizations are working together to influence the media environment.\n\nThe targeted user groups for the Sense-making Markers is:\n\n- Managers/Owners of Social Media platforms\n- Community managers\n- Researchers (academic and otherwise)\n- Knowledge Engineers\n- Businesses\n- The Public\n- Content moderators\n- Governance specialists/consultants\n- Developers\n\nThe Sense-making Markers addresses the following problems:\n\n- The time and effort needed to conduct high quality sense-making can be very time-consuming for individuals and groups\n- It may be too time-consuming and effortful to understand another user's sense-making if there is not an agreed upon standard or code for sense-making because of differences in expertise, skills, experience, etc.\n- It is very difficult to design a collective sensemaking system, e.g., a recommender systems for social media platforms, without first having deliberated, externalized, and operationalized a means for determining the features, and the means for assessing these features, from sense data.\n- There is a need for transparency regarding the sense data and other features utilized in recommendation systems on digital platforms (in particular, social media platforms)\n- There is a need for an interoperable format for sense-making markers so that we can 1) free sense data (and the sense-making process itself) from proprietary digital platforms, 2) make sense data exchangeable between different information systems, and 3) make sense data discoverable to discovery services ", "hidden": false, "question": "Who's the targeted user group and what's the need/problem being addressed?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "For the Catalogue, we plan to offer a freemium plan for access to our data via a web API and our data-driven tools (search, discovery, analysis, etc.) via a web application, and possibly consulting services and other data services.\n\nFor the Sense-making Markers, we plan to offer a freemium plan for a web API, and possibly consulting services and other data services.\n\n\nI may provide a premium plan for the Distroid Digest newsletter for works that receive high Distroid Rank scores, and for creating custom feeds based on Distroid Rank scores.\n\nAdditionally, both the Catalogue, Distroid Digest, and Sense-making Markers will be bundled together, as part of the membership plan for Ledgerback.", "hidden": true, "question": "How do you ensure value keeps being delivered after the round is over? (How will the project become commercially sustainable or a perennial good? )", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Within the next 6 - 9 months, we should have interactive web application prototypes (and possibly a web API) for the Catalogue and Sense-making Markers.\n\nWithin the next 1 - 2 years, we should have a beta web application for the Catalogue and Sense-making Markers (and a prototype web API).", "hidden": true, "question": "How long will it take after funding is received to deliver value? (share a high level timeline)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "https://t.me/cadjovu1", "hidden": true, "question": "Contact info (telegram handle or whatsapp)", "questionId": 7}], "project": {"id": "0xac00609bdcaba80b62de33931a55b2e4bb93722abe838d688061b9d6590f2d22", "title": "Distroid", "logoImg": "bafkreidau5nrxr5ashzbjl6l36erbbo6gkxd4fuck6llotve2glg2cb5qi", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiaqggicgofq5xhsdd42dppligf3t5bnttco6hbo2ylhm3ppkkq7bm", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://distroid.ledgerback.xyz", "createdAt": 1700516977877, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..tgz0l-SwWjSpgACSWCfN-kqHBNjMLaoVHYRwO1pJlpWLYLibSJu7KJfys2aBsu_ShwX3-iHDC32MhxVfCTA5Cg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-11-20T21:53:35.252Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-11-20T21:53:35.251Z", "expirationDate": "2024-02-18T21:53:35.251Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xc7978F8Cb4d826E209911237676d1eeAF17942F4", "hash": "v0.0.0:qvJUXPk73xvDf4GK3gLBfsV9YRMAS66Wp0ERaH3LJrY=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#_Distroid"}}}, "description": "# What is Distroid?\n\nThe Distroid  project is focused on developing new ways to search and discover digital media at the intersection of technology and society.\n\n\nPrimarily, we are working on developing the following tools and resources as part of the Distroid project:\n\n1. Distroid Catalogue,\n2. Distroid Sense-making Markers, \n3. Distroid Digest, and\n4. Distroid Rank.\n\n## Distroid Catalogue\n\nThe Distroid Catalogue is a catalogue of digital media at the intersection of technology and society, represented as a knowledge graph to find and explore the relationships between people, works, organizations, media outlets, topics, and more. \n\n## Distroid Sense-making Markers \n\n[\"Sense-making refers to processes by which agents make sense of their environment, achieved by organizing sense data until the environment is understood well enough to enable reasonable decisions\"](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.06345)\n\nSense-making markers are digital artifacts of sense data (i.e., signalling cues) that a person has identified from content, people, or other objects in their information environment (most often found as annotations or other indirect modifications to objects in the information environment). In other words, the sense-making markers are digital artifacts of what people have paid attention to in their information environment.\n\nThe sense-making markers can be used to signal important features in objects, and determining how to evaluate such features, ultimately contributing to [assessing the epistemic qualities](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.06345) of objects in the information environment.\n\nAn example of a sense-making marker is the up/down vote button on Reddit or the like button on Twitter.\n\nThe common language describes a data model for sense-making markers, and how sense-making markers relate to other concepts, such as content, contributors, and algorithms. \n\nThrough the common language, anyone can create sense-making markers to fit their particular contexts.\n\nThe sense-making markers and associated concepts will be accessible via a registry. This registry will provide the functionality for\u00a0creating, storing, and querying sense-making markers and concepts associated with them.\n\nThe sense-making markers provides an interoperable format for exchanging sense data (i.e., signalling cues) between information systems, and the sense-making markers granular enough to serve as the foundation for systems focused on collective sense-making and other parts of the [collective intelligence lifecycle](https://deliberatorium.org/homepage/research.html).\n\n## Distroid Digest\n\nThe Distroid Digest is a curated newsletter curating digital media (some new, some old) to inform people (or enhance understanding of) about news, updates, and trends from the intersection of technology and society.\n\n## Distroid Rank\n\nDistrodi Rank is a ranking algorithm for content curated in the Distroid Catalogue for ranking content based on whether the content helps advance understanding of the intersection of technology and society, built on top of our sense-making markers.\n\n## Recent Work\n\nHere is a list of recent work on the Distroid project:\n  \n- [Distroid: Developing the Distroid Curator Algorithm for Ranked Feeds based on the Sensemaking Markers](https://ledgerback.pubpub.org/pub/9ibht7wp/release/8)\n- [Distroid: Serializing Sensemaking Marker Schema in JSON](https://ledgerback.pubpub.org/pub/d7mtiza5/release/5)\n- [Distroid: Prototyping an LLM-based tool to automate assessing the sensemaking markers](https://ledgerback.pubpub.org/pub/8z57l1jz/release/3)\n- [Distroid: Graph Data Model for Catalogue](https://ledgerback.pubpub.org/pub/etm4bbe4/release/6)\n\n## Recent Artifacts\n\nOur project has produced several artifacts that contribute to connecting everyone to knowledge and ideas. These artifacts include:\n\n1) Distroid Digest: a Substack newsletter for a weekly digest of curated content from the frontier, including research, news, tools, and more, available at: https://distroid.substack.com/; \n2) Distroid Spotlight: a Substack newsletter, planned to start at the end of this year, spotlighting people and projects working at the frontier, available at: https://distroid.substack.com/; \n3) Distroid Vocabulary: a Substack newsletter, planned to start at the end of this year, expanding the reach of emerging language from the frontier, available at: https://distroid.substack.com/; \n4) Distroid Commons: a searchable web-interface demo for searching and filtering for content curated in the digital catalogue, including collections for DAOs, Tools for Thought, Web3, and Platform Cooperativism, available at: https://distroid.ledgerback.xyz/; \n5) Publications Directory: a directory of publications (i.e., media outlets) publishing high quality content at the frontier, available at: https://distroid.ledgerback.xyz/; \n6) Distroid News Content Network Visualization: early work on a network visualization of news content curated in the digital catalogue, showing the connections between authors, content, and publications, available at: https://codepen.io/ledgerback/pen/jOdyYzQ; and \n7) Early findings from the Distroid Database for Issues 28 - 38: a publication of early findings and visualizations from exploring and analyzing content and associated metadata from items curated in Distroid Issues 28 - 38, available at: https://ledgerback.pubpub.org/pub/3ztmsk4k.\n\n\n## Mentions\n\nYou can find tweets discussing Distroid here:\n\n1. [This was an excellent list of resources - many tabs opened. Great job @CAdjovu & thanks for including our guide!](https://twitter.com/patel0phone/status/1477810254905761797)\n2. [This is an incredible research digest (blockchain people)](https://twitter.com/kelsiemvn/status/1444776644124692481)\n3. [Cool newsletter, subscribed.](https://twitter.com/olliten/status/1455300878819278855)\n\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Ledgerback", "projectTwitter": "_Distroid"}, "recipient": "0xc7978F8Cb4d826E209911237676d1eeAF17942F4"}}