<div dir="ltr">Great finds!<div><br></div><div>It would be good to add those to the References wiki:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/References">https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/References</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>It's too bad when there's redundancy around these problems.</div><div>The Munich group's work seems to have been published rather recently.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to plant a seed:</div><div><br></div><div>If there's widespread interest in this topic, what about planning a Symposium specifically on this topic, and inviting these other research groups?</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 6:41 AM, Niels ten Oever <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:niels@article19.org" target="_blank">niels@article19.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nice find Nick - also no idea how I missed this.<br>
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I personally liked the deduplication paper better than the Analysis of<br>
IETF activity paper, the graph on affiliation is rly nice and useful<br>
though.<br>
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Happy to link with other people and understand their approaches!<br>
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Best,<br>
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On 03/26/2018 11:03 PM, Nick Doty wrote:<br>
> Also, it looks like their follow-on paper specifically considers the<br>
> problem of identifying individuals who use different email addresses,<br>
> what we've been working on and calling "entity resolution":<br>
> <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_23" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/<wbr>chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-<wbr>70284-1_23</a><br>
><br>
> And following citations from these papers, I see that there's an ongoing<br>
> project at the Syracuse I School about studying open source software<br>
> development communities, called FLOSSmole. That includes trying to<br>
> gather common datasets to share for analysis, and one of the people<br>
> involved has written about common infrastructure for studying mailing<br>
> list archives.<br>
> <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6664730/?anchor=references" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/<wbr>abstract/document/6664730/?<wbr>anchor=references</a><br>
><br>
> Note, some of these websites are kinda broken because their certificates<br>
> are messed up, but if you're willing to risk adding an exception, I<br>
> think the static content is still fine:<br>
> <a href="https://flossmole.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://flossmole.org/</a><br>
> <a href="https://floss.syr.edu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://floss.syr.edu/</a><br>
><br>
> I'm not sure how I missed all this before, but I think there is existing<br>
> work / people to collaborate with.<br>
><br>
> —Nick<br>
><br>
>> On Mar 26, 2018, at 4:37 PM, Nick Doty <<a href="mailto:npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu">npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu</a><br>
</span><span class="">>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu">npdoty@ischool.<wbr>berkeley.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Has anyone seen this paper or spoken with the authors?<br>
>><br>
>> Niedermayer, Heiko, et al. "An analysis of IETF activities using<br>
</span>>> mailing lists and social media." /International Conference on Internet<br>
>> Science/. Springer, Cham, 2016.<br>
<span class="">>><br>
>> <a href="https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/papers/INSCI_2016.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.net.in.tum.de/<wbr>fileadmin/bibtex/publications/<wbr>papers/INSCI_2016.pdf</a><br>
>><br>
>> Authors are at the Technical University of Munich.<br>
>><br>
>> It's remarkably similar / related to our current working on analysis<br>
>> of IETF activity using mailing lists, and even includes some similar<br>
>> graphs to ones I've shown on perpass / other list activity<br>
>> post-Snowden. They also looked at Twitter references to RFCs, although<br>
>> they appear to conclude that there isn't as much going on there. They<br>
>> could also be potential collaborators; I'm not sure if there's a whole<br>
>> lot else they've done here but I think there's at least one follow-on<br>
>> paper from last year.<br>
>><br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>> Nick<br>
><br>
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