Social Personal Data Stores: the Nuclei of Decentralised Social Machines

Max Van Kleek, Daniel A Smith, Dave Murray-Rust, Amy Guy, Laura Dragan, Nigel R Shadbolt

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract / Description of output

Personal Data Stores are among the many efforts that are currently underway to try to re-decentralise the Web, and to bring more control and data management and storage capability under the control of the user. Few of these architectures, however, have considered the needs of supporting decentralised social software from the user's perspective. In this short paper, we present the results of our design exercise, focusing on two key design needs for building decentralised social machines: that of supporting heterogeneous social apps and multiple, separable user identities. We then present the technical design of a prototype social machine platform, INDX, which realises both of these requirements, and a prototype heterogen
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW 2015 Companion
Place of PublicationFlorence
PublisherACM
Pages1155-1160
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-3473-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 May 2015

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • decentralising the web,social machines,software architectures

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Social Personal Data Stores: the Nuclei of Decentralised Social Machines'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this