Artefact-Actor-Networks as tie between social networks and artefact networks

Abstract

Social networks reflect communication, cooperation and loose acquaintances in networked communities. Numerous metrics allow to expose connections, important persons or clusters within these communities. Furthermore, networks can be spanned to connect documents, blog entries or wiki articles. We call such a network an artefact network. In this paper we introduce the approach of Artefact-Actor-Networks that tries to connect social networks and artefact networks in order to make claims on the semantical connections between persons and manifold artefacts. We present practical use cases for Artefact-Actor-Networks and discuss generic and specific semantical requirements and added values through the existence of Artefact-Actor-Networks.