Web science. WOT Schema. See also: RDFS definitions RDF documents can make any number of statements. Without some kind of signature or other similar verification mechanism, there is no way to understand who made these statements. One way to document who made a set of statements is via the use of Digital Signatures: signing a document using Public Key Cryptography. The WOT, or Web Of Trust, schema is designed to facilitate the use of Public Key Cryptography tools such as PGP or GPG to sign RDF documents and document these signatures. An example document utilizing all the classes and properties of the revised wot vocabulary. Classes and Properties (full detail) Class: wot:EncryptedDocument Encrypted Document - An encrypted document intended for a set of recipients. [back to top] Class: wot:Endorsement Endorsement - An endorsement resource containing a detached ascii signature. Class: wot:PubKey Public Key - A class used to represent a PGP/GPG public key for a user (an agent, person, group or organization).
Trust Ontology. Main Page - TrustLet. Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks - ReadWriteWe. Online reputation company Rapleaf has released a new study of 49.3 million people, revealing gender and age data about social network users. On most of the main social networks – including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 – women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in that age group compared to 977,753 men.
In MySpace, the same age group dominates, with 7,091,214 women and 5,226,788 men. The only social networks studied that didn’t have more women than men in the 18-24 year old group were venerable old LinkedIn (where incidentally the 25-34 age group was tops) and a site called Perfspot. Other highlights: Women ages 14-24 dominate activity on social networks and have more friends than men of the same ages.Men ages 35+ are more active and have more friends than women of the same ages.The average social network user has 2-25 friends.There are a disproportionately high number of 69 year olds across various social networks.