Yesterday, I gave a presentation on the latest developments on ReMashed for the community building cluster within CELSTEC.
The cluster members were interested in the data set created so far by ReMashed to explore how to recommend persons in informal environments based on their competences. Therefore, the new competence fields in the personal profile of the learners are quite suitable. Further, we discussed the need to create a widget / portlet interface for ReMashed to integrate it into personal environments like iGoogle and Netvibes but also into Liferay or Moodle.
Following up on this, we talked about the need create an administration layer above the current systems to create different instances of ReMashed for various online communities. From here we stumbled into a 'privacy issue / suitability of information' discussion for different communities. Just fetching all public items from delicious and present those in all instances of ReMashed might not be wise. Instead of that the hashtag method like in Twitter or Elgg might be a solution to allocate information with a certain tag to a specific community. For instance the hashtag ’communityBuilding’ indicates that the attached information should go to a communityBuildiung instance of ReMashed.
Keywords: remashed liferay moodle emergence recommender_system collaborative_filtering informal_learning personalisation Web2.0 MUPPLE