This project is designed to build and maintain a trust network on the
semantic web.
If you would
like
to participate, you can join the network in several ways:
Trust-O-Matic -
What is the easiest and fastest way to get in the network? Use
Trust-O-Matic! Enter your email address, your friends addresses, and fill
out a little form to give them ratings. You can also include seeAlso
references for yourself and your friends.
Once you enter values in
Trust-O-Matic, they are stored locally in our system, so you
cannot change them. If you would like to be able to change your
ratings quickly, you should copy the output to a file on your own
server and link it in to the
network. That will allow you to change it any time and see it
updated in real time.
Rate
your FOAF
File - use Morten Frederiksen's application to load your FOAF file,
give ratings to anyone in it, and receive output that you can upload to
your server and then link in here.
Submit your FOAF file with trust
ratings - if you would like to manually add trust ratings to your
existing FOAF file, you can provide us with a pointer to your FOAF
URI.
Convert your Addressbook - For the technically inclined, this is a simple perl script that will parse your addressbook and
create a trust-o-matic page with the addresses filled in for you - all you need to do is rate them!
There are also all sorts of fun ways to interact with the network.
Calculate Trust! - Use our trust algorithm to infer a trust rating between two
people
Personal Statistics - Find out how many people you've rated, how many people have rated
you, the average
rating
you give, and the average rating people have given you..
Network
Statistics - How big is the trust network? How many trust ratings are
there? What is the average rating? This will tell you the real-time
answer. Right now it only includes trust files we know about (either from
Trust-O-Matic, or linked in files). This does not include the spidered
network because that takes a long time to load.
The Top Ten - This is a ranking of the top ten people who have assigned the most trust
ratings.