LabScene:SocialNetworkModel

Reference Research Gate and Facebook interface

Labscene is not just a collaborative wiki but it is also a social network. Within wikis people watch and keep track of documents, within semantic wikis people watch and keep track of data, and within social networks people watch and keep track of people; Labscene allows for all three of these possibilities. Some good examples of how the social networking aspect might be used are as follows:


 * Keep in contact with fellow researchers from different locations
 * Research advisers can manage and communicate with their group of researchers and their on-going research
 * Collaborations can be formed, tracked, managed, and discussed

=Goals=


 * Allow users to establish friends (instead of friends I want to call them Labmates... it seems more appropriate and fun)
 * Provide users with a main 'logged in' interface that shows recent events of friends (labmates) -- Newsboard
 * Main 'logged in' interface shows current projects/experiments/articles (status on-going)
 * Main 'logged in' interface shows friends
 * Main 'logged in' interface shows public message boards (for thoughts, news upadates, status updates, commentary from labmates, and other publicly shared knowledge)
 * Also show changes to watched articles on newsboard (Watched Pages)
 * Provide options to tune what is seen on newsboard
 * Show related materials that might be of interest (optional)
 * Provide the ability for users to make groups (lab groups)
 * Private messaging
 * Ability to share experiments/articles/...other namespaces (either privately or publicly)
 * Provide privacy controls

= User Login and Account Creation =
 * Account creation using other services such as "OpenId" and "Sign up using Facebook"
 * Login using other services such as "OpenID" and "Log in with Facebook"
 * New user login message and getting started tutorial

= Profile =
 * Form for creating and editing User profiles

= Type:User (Namespace) = hasName Name hasImage (0:*) Image hasDescription Description hasGender Gender hasOccupation (0:*) Occupation hasLocation Location isFrom Location wasBorn Date contactBy Email hasEmail (0:*) Address hasAddress (0:*) Phone hasPhone (0:*) hasEducation Education attended (0:*) received (0:*) pursuing (0:*) hasAwards Awards (0:*) hasHonors Honors (0:*) hasExperience Experience (0:*) hasInterest Interest (0:*) hasPublication Publication (0:*) hasWebsite Website hasPresentation Presentation (0:*) [Conference or other]