Multi-domain cloud social network service platform supporting online collaborations on campus

Abstract

With the dazzling success that public social network services like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube etc. have achieved during the past few years, a variety of specialized social network services, enterprise social network services, and campus social network services for colleges and universities have emerged and developed in recent years. Campus social network services orient at users on the same campus and focus on providing information sharing, knowledge sharing and especially online collaboration services. We propose the design of a multi-domain social network service platform supporting information communication, knowledge sharing and especially online collaborations in different aspects of colleges and universities including teaching, learning and research in the form of cloud service. The platform provides multi-level predefined and user defined groups in independent social domains. By this way, we can not only achieve a more natural convergence between user behavior patterns in the real world environment and that in the online environment provided by campus social network services; but also realize the sharing of management and service responsibilities of campus social network service between management sectors and IT sectors in colleges and universities.