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This paper is grounded in the emerging field of web science and shall contribute to its further classification and demarcation by illustrating the current state of »web-native research methods«. It builds upon an initial arraying work of Richard Rogers, who coined the term »Digital Methods« for research with methods that were »born« in the web, and illustrated and organized them in his eponymous book in 2013. This paper attempts to develop a more appropriate illustration of the Digital Methods by following the web’s very own, hypertextual, network-like nature, in particular by construing an ontological representation on the base of the Web Ontology Language (OWL). By virtue of decomposing the book into granular information units and their subsequent reassembly into OWL entities, immediate access to the entire knowledge domain can be provided, and coherencies, interrelations and distinctions between concepts become apparent. The ontology’s structure was induced narrowly along the provided examples of research projects and subsequently clustered in topic groups, of which the three most important ones were (a) the Digital Methods as an arraying space of web-native methodology, (b) a collection of concrete applications of these Digital Methods in research projects, and (c) a hierarchical scheme of traditional sciences with a distinct interest in answering research questions with help of Digital Methods. Subsequently, the ontology was evaluated in three general dimensions: Deriving user stories and scenarios provided means to validate the utilization quality; the accuracy and reliability of the resulting structure was validated with help of a control group of web-native research projects; and process control instruments served as a validator for the ontology’s correctness. Despite the ontology itself, this paper also resulted in a first interpretation of the produced information: Statements about research practise in social science, politics and philosophy were as possible as findings about commonly applied varieties of methods. Concluding, the present paper proposes a process of ontology engineering, an evaluation of the ontology’s value, and an interpretation of the ontology’s content.
The amount of data produced and stored in multiple types of distributed data sources is growing steadily. A crucial factor that determines whether data can be analyzed efficiently is the use of adequate visualizations. Almost simultaneously with the ongoing availability of data numerous types of visualization techniques have emerged. Since ordinary business intelligence users typically lack expert visualization knowledge, the selection and creation of visualizations can be a very time- and knowledge-consuming task. To encounter these problems an architecture that aims at supporting ordinary BI users in the selection of adequate visualizations is developed in this thesis. The basic idea is to automatically provide visualization recommendations based on the concrete BI scenario and formalized visualization knowledge. Ontologies that formalize all relevant knowledge play an important role in the developed architecture and are the key to make the knowledge machine-processable.
Bei der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Menschen kommt immer häufiger auch unterstützende Software zum Einsatz. Diese Kollaborationswerkzeuge werden oftmals in Form von Webapplikationen im Browser realisiert. Webapplikationen bieten entscheidende Vorteile, darunter eine einfache Einrichtung und kaum notwendige Konfiguration. Sie müssen nicht fest auf dem System eines Nutzers installiert werden und haben daher eine niedrigere Einstiegshürde, was vor allem bei spontaner Zusammenarbeit wichtig ist. Gleichzeitig stehen viele Menschen Webapplikationen kritisch gegenüber, vor allem weil bei ihrer Nutzung Daten auf zentralen Servern verarbeitet und gespeichert werden, die in der Regel nicht unter der Kontrolle des Nutzers stehen.
Neue Webtechnologien, wie WebRTC und IndexedDB, ermöglichen es Webapplikationen, Daten über eine direkte Verbindung untereinander auszutauschen und lokal zu speichern. Daraus ergibt sich das Potential, die Abhängigkeit von zentralen Servern zu reduzieren und somit einige Nachteile von Webapplikationen aufzuheben. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Machbarkeit von Kollaborationsanwendungen für die lokale Zusammenarbeit auf der Grundlage dieser neuen Webtechnologien. Basierend auf vorher in einer Kontextanalyse erhobenen Kriterien, wird eine Softwarearchitektur für eine Kollaborationsplattform im Webbrowser entworfen, die in weiten Teilen auf zentrale Infrastruktur verzichten kann. Anhand einer prototypischen Implementierung dieser Architektur wird ein Nachweis für die generelle Machbarkeit des Konzepts erbracht und es werden Herausforderungen bei dessen Realisierung identifiziert.
Soziale Netzwerke decken ein breites Spektrum an Anwendungsfällen ab und bieten somit eine Vielzahl an Funktionen, bei denen die Teilnehmer mit ihrem sozialen Umfeld interagieren und mit anderen Informationen teilen können. Die dabei aufkommenden Informationen über die Teilnehmer müssen teilweise erfasst und gespeichert werden, um die Funktionalität und die Gebrauchstauglichkeit des sozialen Netzwerkes zu sichern und Missbrauch vorzubeugen. Dies jedoch hat den Nachteil, dass die entstandenen Daten und somit eine Reihe von Aktivitäten der Teilnehmer durch den Anbieter eines sozialen Netzwerkes beobachtet werden können. Um die Privatsphäre der Teilnehmer zu schützen oder auch um eine bessere Skalierbarkeit der sozialen Netzwerke zu erreichen, konzentrieren sich aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten auf die Dezentralisierung sozialer Netzwerke. Dies führt zu neuen Herausforderungen, da die Aufgaben der zentralen Organisationseinheit auf mehrere Komponenten ver-
teilt werden müssen. Eine dieser Aufgaben ist es, die Authentizität und Integrität der Daten für die Teilnehmer sicher zustellen. Die Vernachlässigung dieser beiden Schutzziele kann zu Missbrauch und verschiedenen Angriffen auf ein soziales Netzwerk und dessen Teilnehmer führen.
Um an diese Problemstellung heranzugehen, soll innerhalb dieser Arbeit geklärt werden, wann und welche Mechanismen für die Erfüllung der beiden Schutzziele in sozialen Netzwerken ohne zentrale Organisationseinheit geeignet sind. Hierfür werden die Angriffe zur Verletzung dieser beiden Schutzziele in soziale Netzwerken und der darunter liegenden Infrastruktur betrachtet. Des Weiteren wird geklärt, welchen Einfluss die Dezentralisierung auf die die Teilnehmerdaten hat und was die relevanten Kriterien für authentische Teilnehmerdaten sind.
Due to the present developments of the Internet and its technical components, the skills of the web experts have to be more and more complex and specific. The Internet experts in the creative field are located distributedly around the whole world. As a result, many companies have problems to find the needed experts on site and are dependent on creative cooperations and virtual teams with the help of technical tools. The virtual working place is an important issue, particularly in modern times and the market offers more and more cooperation systems for exactly this purpose: Creative cooperation in distributed working situations. This thesis examines the approaches of creative cooperation and cooperation technologies with an analysis about existing cooperation systems with a creative context. It spans a wide range of tools. On the one hand, there are approaches which offer only straightforward solutions for single design tasks. On the other hand, there are providers which recognised the great need of creative cooperation systems and working at full speed to extend their systems. The examined areas of this work lead to a design process oriented approach with flexible frames and enough space for the creative development of every single user. The cooperation in a creative context stays in the foreground and is the base for future approaches for the web design sector.
Das Internet birgt schier endlose Informationen. Ein zentrales Problem besteht heutzutage darin diese auch zugänglich zu machen. Es ist ein fundamentales Domänenwissen erforderlich, um in einer Volltextsuche die korrekten Suchanfragen zu formulieren. Das ist jedoch oftmals nicht vorhanden, so dass viel Zeit aufgewandt werden muss, um einen Überblick des behandelten Themas zu erhalten. In solchen Situationen findet sich ein Nutzer in einem explorativen Suchvorgang, in dem er sich schrittweise an ein Thema heranarbeiten muss.
Für die Organisation von Daten werden mittlerweile ganz selbstverständlich Verfahren des Machine Learnings verwendet. In den meisten Fällen bleiben sie allerdings für den Anwender unsichtbar.
Die interaktive Verwendung in explorativen Suchprozessen könnte die menschliche Urteilskraft enger mit der maschinellen Verarbeitung großer Datenmengen verbinden.
Topic Models sind ebensolche Verfahren. Sie finden in einem Textkorpus verborgene Themen, die sich relativ gut von Menschen interpretieren lassen und sind daher vielversprechend für die Anwendung in explorativen Suchprozessen. Nutzer können damit beim Verstehen unbekannter Quellen unterstützt werden.
Bei der Betrachtung entsprechender Forschungsarbeiten fiel auf, dass Topic Models vorwiegend zur Erzeugung statischer Visualisierungen verwendet werden. Das Sensemaking ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der explorativen Suche und wird dennoch nur in sehr geringem Umfang genutzt, um algorithmische Neuerungen zu begründen und in einen umfassenden Kontext zu setzen. Daraus leitet sich die Vermutung ab, dass die Verwendung von Modellen des Sensemakings und die nutzerzentrierte Konzeption von explorativen Suchen, neue Funktionen für die Interaktion mit Topic Models hervorbringen und einen Kontext für entsprechende Forschungsarbeiten bieten können.
Blogging has established itself as an important and influential part of the
modern online media. At the dawn of the blogosphere people were publishing
their diaries and life journals. Nowadays, some bloggers operate blogs that are
hardly any different from online newspapers and magazines. On the one hand
professional blogging is broadly accepted in the society, but on the other hand
it is poorly understood. The purpose of this explorative study is to broaden
the understanding of blogging as a professional activity. In particular, this
study explores the aspects of professional blogging and the interplay between
credibility, authenticity and monetisation in blogs.
To understand blogging as a professional activity an extensive literature
research is conducted. First, main concepts of blogging as a social activity
are discussed. Then, the changes that come together with the transformation
of a social activity into a professional activity of blogging are discussed. To
look at the activity of blogging from an unusual perspective, a comprehensive
qualitative survey is conducted with blog readers. The survey examines
not only readers’ perception of blogging as a professional activity, but also
motivations for reading blogs and attitude to monetising practices and labelling
of monetised content in blogs. Information received from the survey is used to
draw some conclusions about the state of the art of blogging as a professional
activity, and challenges and opportunities blogging industry faces nowadays.
Since the development of eGovernment systems is gaining worldwide momentum, the European Union is constantly increasing its efforts to induce the development of eGovernment systems in its member states. The currently running strategy is the ’eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020’, which understands itself as a catalyst for developments in the member states.
Despite these ongoing efforts by the European Union regarding eGovernment, stud- ies are repeatedly revealing that the quality and acceptance by the citizens of dig- ital public services are varying heavily within the EU. Being based on the same political guidelines provided by the EU, the national strategies implemented the core principles to different degrees. These different implementation rates, analyzed for Germany, the United Kingdom and Estonia, supplement the holistic analysis of the eGovernment policies, applications and usage in each member state. This gets proven by the connection of this indicator with related studies in the field of eGov- ernment applications and usage within the European Union.
The aim of this thesis is, on the one hand, to quantify differences in the implementa- tion of the ’eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020’ into national policies in Germany, the UK and Estonia and, on the other hand, establish this indicator as a valuable asset for evaluating and monitoring the eGovernment efforts by the EU member states.
This thesis focuses on the identification of influential users, also known as key opinion leaders, within the social network Instagram. Instagram is a very popular platform to share images with the option to categorise the images by certain tags. It is possible to collect public data from Instagram via the open API of the platform.
This thesis presents a concept to create an automated crawler for this API and col- lect data into a database in order to apply algorithms from graph theory to identify opinion leaders afterwards. The sample topic for this thesis has been veganfood and all associated posts from Instagram have been crawled.
After the user data has been crawled a graph has been created to do further research with common social network analysis tools. The graph contained a total set of more than 26,000 nodes.
To identify opinion leaders from this graph, five di↵erent metrics have been applied, in particular PageRank, Betweenness centrality, Closeness Centrality, Degree and Eigen- vector centrality. After applying the di↵erent algorithms the results have been eval- uated and additionally an marketing expert with focus on social media analysed the results.
This project was able to figured out that it is possible to find opinion leaders by using the PageRank algorithm and that those opinion leaders have a very good value of en- gagement. This indicates that they show a high interaction with other users on their posts. In conclusion the additional research options are discussed to provide a future outlook.
There is a dramatic shift in credit card fraud from the offline to the online world. Large online retailers have tried to establish countermeasures and transaction data analysis technologies to lower the rate of fraudulent transactions to a manageable amount. But as retailers will always have to make a trade-off between the performance of the transaction processing, the usability of the web shop, and the overall security of it, one can assume that e-commerce fraud will still happen in the future. Thus, retailers have to collaborate with relevant business partners on the incident to find a common ground and take coordinated (legal) actions against it.
Trying to combine the information from different stakeholders will face issues due to different wordings and data formats, competing incentives of the stakeholders to participate on information sharing, as well as possible sharing restrictions that prevent them from making the information available to a larger audience. Moreover, as some of the information might be confidential or business-critical to at least one of the parties involved, a centralized system (e.g. a service in the public cloud) can not be used.
This Master Thesis is therefore analysing how far a computer supported collaborative work system based on peer-to-peer communication and Semantic Web technologies can improve the efficiency and effectivity of e-commerce fraud investigations within an inter-institutional team.