Talk at Second Open Global Systems Science Conference, 11 June 2013, Brussels, Belgium

1. David De Roure
Social Machines

2. More people
Moremachines
This is a Fourth Quadrant Talk
Big Data
Big Compute
Conventional
Computation
The Future!
Social
Networking
e-infrastructure
online
R&D
The Fourth
Quadrant

3. Nigel Shadbolt et al

4. Real life is and must be full of all kinds of
social constraint – the very processes
from which society arises. Computers can
help if we use them to create abstract
social machines on the Web: processes in
which the people do the creative work and
the machine does the administration…
The stage is set for an evolutionary
growth of new social engines.
Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999
The Order of Social Machines

5. Some Social Machines

6. Scientists
Talk
Forum
Image
Classification
data reduction
Citizen Scientists

7. Physical World
(people and devices)
Building a Social Machine
Design and
Composition
Participation and
Data supply
Model of social interaction
Virtual World
(Network of
social interactions)
Dave Robertson

8. http://www.myexperiment.org/

9. Whither the Social Machine?
Kevin Page

10. Whither the Social Machine?
Kevin Page

11. Whither the Social Machine?
Kevin Page

12. Trajectories... distinguished by purpose
Kevin Page
Page and De Roure, Trajectories through Social Machines, Building
Web Observatories Workshop at Web Science 2013, Paris

13. Cat De Rourehttp://botornot.net

14. SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice
of Social Machines
http://www.sociam.org/
http://www.smart-society-project.eu/

15. Web as lens
Web as artefact
Web Observatories
http://www.w3.org/community/webobservatory/

16. The challenge is to foster the co-constituted socio-technical
system on the right i.e. a computationally-enabled sense-
making network of expertise, data, models and narratives.
This requires a “social machines” perspective from the outset
as well as humanistic input. The Web, and with it Web
Science, are an important exemplar.
Big data elephant versus sense-making network?
Iain Buchan

17. A revolutionary idea…
Open Science!
Nullius in verba
…take nobody's word for it

18. Join the W3C Community Group www.w3.org/community/rosc
Jun Zhao
www.researchobject.org

19. Scholarly Social
Machines Ecosystem

20. Closing Questions
1. What are the Social Machines of Global
Systems Science?
2. How do we study the Social Machines
ecosystem?
3. What are the design principles and models of
compositionality for Social Machines?
4. What are the implications of the Social
Machines ‘sphere’ in Global Systems Science?

21. david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
http://www.scilogs.com/eresearch
@dder
Thanks to Nigel Shadbolt, Dave Robertson, Kevin Page, Cat
De Roure, Iain Buchan, Jun Zhao and colleagues in SOCIAM,
Web Science, myExperiment and Smart Society.