The Reputation-specific slides from our IA Summit 2009 Workshop, The Architecture of Social Websites. Workshop given by Christina Wodtke, Joshua Porter, Christian Crumlish, and myself Bryce Glass.

1. Reputation Bryce Glass

2. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person …

3. … or an animal. What do you think of this guy?

4. “ Reputation is another potential source of information about an opponent's fighting ability . Reputation is defined here as the estimation held by one individual of another individual's qualities or characteristics . Reputation is thus a property of one animal in relation to another. One animal's reputation may be learned by another through personal experience with it, or secondhand, through the experiences of others .” — Deception, Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit By Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson Photo: “ Scars ” by Imansyah™ used under Creative Commons license .

5. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time .

6. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . What kinds of information? Where does this information come from ?

7. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . What kinds of value judgments can we make?

8. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . We call these reputable entities . Reputable entities may be people on your site, or they may be the objects & artifacts that they interact with. What qualities do good reputable entities possess? Is people reputation ( karma ) demonstrably different than content reputation ?

9. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . Can one reputation serve all contexts ? Global vs. local reputations Choosing the right scope . Is reputation portable ? Can I “carry” it from context to context?

10. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . Nothing lasts forever. Reputations should decay . Use time-based filters for reputation-ranked content.

11. Now we’re gonna jump around a bit.

14. RE as Person Reputation extends one’s identity… … esp. when said identity is weak Metadata is reputation Gathered from Ratings Associations & Affiliations are also reputation Rep can be displayed as a score

15. RE as Object Objects frequently come from people . Statistical Evidence Volume of response Community Ratings

33. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . What kinds of information? Where does this information come from? How do we experience it ?

35. The classic love triangle…

47. Sally has found her Bits.

48. Bob is rewarded for his Bits.

49. And, yes, Sally admires Bob.

53. Individual statements combine to form aggregate or community scores

54. What are the Targets? Claims?

56. Explicit

57. Implicit

64. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . What kinds of value judgments? Who’s doing the judging? How are these judgments expressed ?

66. But not always in the ways you think!

67. Consider instead…

68. Or…