Voofie - Your Expertise Makes Global Impact
There are millions of bloggers contributing knowledge to the world by posting what they know on to their blog, sometimes thousands of blogger writting on similar topic. However this large knowledge base is not well organized, as most blogger rely on search engine indexing and hopefully gain audience in an unpredictable way. Readers also face difficulties in assessing which blogger is more knowledgeable as outstanding bloggers are not well recongized for their contributions. Voofie, a new knowledge platform, is inspired to transform the way knowledge resources are organized by organizing them semantically and give a reliable measurement to assess the authority of the author on the topic being discussed in the post.
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By giving a semantic structure, which organize resources by their nature rather than their choice of keywords, the world's knowledge will be more reusable, accessible and browsable. The semantic structure not only links knowledge, but also brings users with similar expertise and interest together to form a dynamic knowledge community. Voofie also created the Internet's first subject-based Impact Factor system to measure authority and trustworthiness of users and their posts, so that users can understand each others' expertise and hence easier to locate and identify high quality and trustworthy post from a sea of similar posts, enhancing reliableness of knowledge.
Organizating the world's knowledge
Knowledge comes in different form, such as scholarly paper, blog article, forum post, links, Q&A etc. Voofie provides features to post article, link, question or discussion so you can treat Voofie as a blog, forum, bookmarking site or Q&A site. Basically everything that others find useful are very welcomed on Voofie. You can post what you know, such as research findings, homework, shopping experiences or cooking recipes on Voofie.
To handle such a massive amount of posts on different topic, style and format, Voofie deployed a tagging system that is inspired from Wikipedia. Posts are tagged with Wikipedia titles, with each tag semantically representing one concept. Similar to Wikipedia, there are also disembiguation and redirection tags to help people tag the correct semantic meaning by choosing the most appropriate tag. Besides topics, there are also attribute tags such as genre and difficulty to describe the nature of the post, enabling you to accurately locate the resources that are most suitable for your specific context. The site also organize the posts into a tree-like category for easy navigation. The tags also form a backbone of a community covering millions of topics, which you can easily find people sharing the same interest as you.
Start showcasing your talents by contributing to the world and helping others at the same time. Just bookmarking your blog article on Voofie also helps organizing the world's sementic knowledge base, hence make them easier for others to find it and drive traffic to your blog.
The Impact Factor system - Expertise Matters
In real life, we know each others' expertise so it is easy to determine whose opinion on what topic is trustworthy and influential. However, there is no easy way to do so on the Internet, especially in a dynamic community where millions of users interact with each others and have no time to know each other well. Hence, Voofie introduces an Impact Factor system to tell each users' authority in various topics.
The Impact Factor is calculated from the quality of the users' as evaluated by other intenet users in a novel mechanism. Basically, good posts that draw attentions can receive a high impact. Posts that attract experts also have a higher impact than those attracting laymen. Most importantly, instead of giving every one equal weight, experts have a higher authority in determinating the rankings and scores of posts and other users. But an expert in finance can be a laymen in IT, so the system will keep track on Impact Factor gained on different topics. By allowing experts to have higher influence, the Impact Factor system works better than other collaborative filtering systems, which treat everyone the same. Futhermore, the algothm take relationship between subjects into consideration. Suppose a user is an expert in finance, then he should be able to have high authority in subjects like Credit Default Swaps. The relationships between subjects are measured by Semantic Relatedness. By considering the Semantic Relatedness between the skill profile and the document's topic, we can get a fair and sound measurement of ones' contribution and reputation in a field.
Getting a high authority in what you are good at is not only help others in knowing that your comments are influential, but also a achievement that can earn you fame, prestige and reputation. Such recongition is not only useful in cyberspace, but also useful in your career. You can begin building your reputation online by submitting your blog article on Voofie.
The Knowledge Utopia
Voofie is inspired to become the repository of the world's knowledge by being a neatly organized library for the Internet, enabling knowledge to be easily reusable and more accurate to find, and recongizing trustworthy, authoritative talents who have contributed their knowledge to the world. Show to the world what you are good at by gaining a high impact!
There's even more interesting features at Voofie. Explore Voofie now! Spead the word of Voofie to your friend to help building the world's semantically organized knowledge community!
To get started, you may read the following articles to understand how Voofie works.
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