DNA: From Search to Observation Revisited

Abstract

In this paper, we describe extensions to the process model first described in the paper "From Search to Observation" based on additional field interview work. This process model forms part of a triad of perspectives under the banner of a methodology known as DNA, which looks at structure (Definition), process (Nature) and motivations of actors (Archetypes) for Web Observatories (hereafter WO) and more generally the class of Social Machines. We discuss the rationale for the model enhancements, enumerate and summarise the changes and close with an introduction to future work around use of open source tools and languages for implementing and analyzing social machine processes using this model. The additional perspectives we are now considering are an extensive revision to the model (which now addresses more than three times the number of factors in the previous model) and hence a revised paper is called for in this space.