Digital Identity

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Digital Identity

• Shirley Williams
• University of Reading

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Digital Identity

• We use the term "digital identity" (DI) to
  describe the persona an individual presents
  across all the digital spaces that he/she is
  represented in.

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Facets of DI

• There maybe a number of facets to a persons DI
• What sort of DI should an e-Researcher have?

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Exercise

• Think of an established researcher that you
  admire.
• How do we establish what sort of DI do they
  present?

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Thats the right one - Lets try some of the tabs
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Impressive What else?
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What nothing since 2005?
Lets try Google Scholar
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Not our Mark, lets add the middle initial we saw
earlier. That doesnt help. What about adding
Reading That doesnt help either. But earlier
we had an email address lets try that
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Ok thats the one, more to see here
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FOAF?
ltrdfRDFgt - ltfoafPerson rdfID"me"gt ltfoafnamegtM
ark Bakerlt/foafnamegt ltfoaftitlegtProflt/foaftitle
gt ltfoafgivennamegtMarklt/foafgivennamegt ltfoaffami
ly_namegtBakerlt/foaffamily_namegt ltfoafnickgtmordil
lolt/foafnickgt ltfoafhomepage rdfresource"http/
/acet.rdg.ac.uk/mab"/gt ltfoafphone
rdfresource"tel[phone]"/gt ltfoafworkplace
Homepage rdfresource"http//acet.rdg.ac.uk/mab"
/gt lt/foafPersongt lt/rdfRDFgt
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Is this the same mordillo? Dont know!
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DI
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Web 2.0 DI

• Interaction and dialogue
• Collaboration

• Feeds
• Tags

Networks

• Lack of Control
• Fraud

Trust Reputation
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Examples

• Blogs
• Social book marking
• Social networking
• VOIP/messaging
• File sharing

• Wordpress
• Delicious
• Ning
• Skype
• Flickr
• etc

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Discussion Points 1

• Should you try and retain separate DIs for
  private and professional lives?
• E.g. multiple Facebook accounts
• Is your DI altered by
• The people you follow?
• The people who follow you?

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Discussion Points 2

• Does a Web 2.0 DI help your research career?
• Can Web 2.0 DI damage your research career?
• If you ignore Web 2.0 is it not there?

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Thank you

• You can find me at
• Email
• shirley.williams_at_reading.ac.uk
• Twitter, del.icio.us, Skype
• shirleyearley
• Blog
• http//redgloo.sse.reading.ac.uk/ssswills/weblog
• Second Life
• Rosie Luna
• etc