Whilst designing the Edge Architecture I quickly realized that Relationships were a key element of systems going forward. At Spark this was reinforced and in addition I began to understand that it is actually the platform for both collaboration and discovery. Starting to drill down into the Edge Architecture the whole area of relationships seemed to be the right starting point so I have been researching and thinking about this area.  Looking at it in more detail there are two different but tightly linked areas; Relationships and Reputation.

 

Under Relationships there is:

Identity

Groups

Membership

Relationships

Personalization

Access control

 

Under Reputation there is

Ranking

Rating

Trust

Reputation

Authority

Activities

 

Now to work out the linkages.