Federal institutions played their role as one contributor of information to be discussed by multiple stakeholders in the communication process, e.g. journalists, editors of web- and social media publications, employers, medical professionals, teachers, to mention but some.
While the role(s) and value of individuals in collaborative environments (and organizations in general) has been known for some time (McGregor and Cutcher-Gershenfeld 2005), it is relatively recently that a diverse range of individuals have become major contributors to information (and even knowledge and data) in complex research networks.
The paper lowered its standards by allowing a contributor to conceal information that would have helped readers evaluate her article more fairly.
Since each contributor's shared information is displayed under his own a banner and logo, ownership and responsibility go hand-in-hand and this whole process is open to public scrutiny on the Internet.We have clearly demonstrated that sharing and generosity does not threaten identity or responsibility and professional goodwill.
k-anonymity partitions data into public properties and sensitive properties and requires that at least k undistinguished data exist for each equivalent class in the shared data set, so that malicious users cannot identify any individual data contributor based on the sensitive information from the other k − 1 pieces of data [31].
By storing contributors' credit card information, ActBlue reduces the friction involved in filling out donation forms to a single click.
[Disclosure: the exhibition features infographics from Future contributors David Spiegelhalter and David McCandless from Information is Beautiful].
In some cases, data contributors provide chemical information extracted from the scientific literature through manual curation or data mining.
With that said, it is of particular interest that some PubChem contributors provide bioactivity information extracted from the literature through the means of manual curation or data mining.
Tagging of entries by contributors sees related information captured and shared across the site that is not simply limited to tourist and mainstream attractions.
