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'''Status''': Established in 2000
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'''Source File''': http://web.mit.edu/workinggreen/about/index.html
= Intro =


'''Description''':
[https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:montreal TA3M event]


'''Working Green at MIT'''
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The mission of the MIT Working Group Recycling Committee (WGR) is to develop and deliver programs that educate administrative and support staff about recycling, reducing and reusing goods. Efforts include identifying/addressing gaps in staff understanding about recycling as well as gaps in recycling resources, and creating ways to increase recycling at MIT.
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WGR has been actively promoting recycling since 2000, when MIT's recycling rate was a very low 11%. The effort appears to be working—in 2006, MIT received the Go Green Award from the City of Cambridge for reaching a 40% recycling rate in 2005.
The panopticon is an institutional design whereby authorities can watch any subject with a minimum of effort. A reverse panopticon makes it possible to better track the actions of those in positions of authority.


WGR membership includes MIT support and administrative staff, representatives from MIT's Environmental Programs Office and Department of Facilities, and members of other campus advocacy groups. Affiliates include the Director, Recycling Division of the City of Cambridge among others.
David Mason will discuss a system designed to collect semantic content and link it to documents as they're browsed. For example, it can determine connections between people mentioned on a current page - those involved in politics, big business or crime. Content can be collected and annotated through automated crawling or by a user browsing their topic of interest. An investigative journalist can easily edit and annotate semantic links of people and their association as they follow a line of inquiry. General questions can be asked from the repository of all the links they visited, such as 'politician' and 'Saguenay'. The tool's flexible design and open source nature could allow anyone to participate in creating annotators and add meaning, connections to content. The system can support individual or federated instances.


WGR has about 100 volunteer Recycling Ambassadors who reach out to the community and communicate WGR initiatives and encourage recycling in their particular department, lab or center. In 2006, WGR members were recognized with an MIT Excellence Award for the work they have done in the MIT Community.
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'''WGR Beginnings'''
= The idea =


In 2000, members of the Working Group on Support Staff Issues discovered that there were no recycling bins in the rooms where they met for their monthly meetings. A group of people, led by Anne Wasserman and Laura Moses, saw this as an opportunity to support the Working Group and the MIT support staff community in a new way, and the new Working Group Recycling Committee (WGR) was formed. WGR joined forces with EPTF and the combined group worked together to address issues surrounding recycling and sustainability on campus.
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''<u>Check out the "background info" tab for a list of WGR's accomplishments!</u>''
Today's version is a Web based system for organizing data behind content.


[[Category:Colleges]]
* hypothes.is
[[Category:Massachusetts]]
 
[[Category:Policies]]
== Supporting content==
[[Category:Recycling]]
 
* Corporate registries - Sunlight foundation
* Wikipedia and other reusable content
 
What other implementations do people know?
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= Sensebase =
 
https://github.com/vid/SenseBase MIT license
 
* An annotating system featuring a teams of computer and humans
* Designed for science research (Proxiris) and health systems (PatientSense)
* Amenable to be distributed and support personal databases
 
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= Problems  =
 
== Problems it can solve==
 
* Augments publicly available data as you browse across the web
** Research tool
*** Health systems
*** Science
*** Journalism
* less sinister, more constructive
* Link useful information
* Ask questions
** How many articles about Cuba mentioned politicians
** When did an Australian prime minister mention aboriginals
 
== Problems it can create ==
 
* Bad information
** Especially in computer systems (80% accuracy at best)
* Signal to noise
* Sensationalism vs subtle details
* Favouring the favoured
 
= Sensebase design =
 
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* Semantic Web / Linked Data design so any content can be described
** Quote, Category, Value, ValueQuote
 
* Workflow
** Many automated annotations to few human-vetted
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* ElasticSearch
* NodeJS
* Bayueux (Faye)
 
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== Elements ==
 
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;Dashboard
* Drag and drop content
* Triaging process for annotations
* Advanced searches
** Facet search
* Select annotators, status display
* Manage team
* Chat
 
; Annotators
* AFINN sentiment
* DBPedia Spotlight
* Classifier
* Genozymes pipeline (Proxiris)
* Structural
 
; Open Annotation
* Exchange annotations between bases
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; Text oriented data store
* supports fuzzy search, ranges, "more like this," resilient and scalable
* Team of specialized distributed software agents that are loosely coupled
** Uses pubsub
* Triage process - validated and unvalidated
 
;Proxy approach, indexes content as you browse
* Provides an in-page annotation and insight tool
* Re-annotate content based on new information
 
; Scraper
* Start from current link
* re-run as required
* Continue scrape based on relevance
* Browser based
 
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= Next steps =
 
* Annotators it's easy and useful to add
* Connecting projects
* Developers
*Front end (Semantic UI), back end (NodeJS)
* Applications
 
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