Description of the activities and goals of the Social Media Research Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship. See: http://www.smrfoundation.org. One project from the Social Media Research Foundation is NodeXL, the network overview, discovery and exploration add-in for Excel 2007/2010. See: http://www.smrfoundation.org

2. Who we are

3. What we are trying to do:Open Tools, Open Data, Open Scholarship Build the “Firefox of GraphML” – open tools for collecting and visualizing social media data Connect users to network analysis – make network charts as easy as making a pie chart Connect researchers to social media data sources Archive: Be the “Allen Very Large Telescope Array” for Social Media data – coordinate and aggregate the results of many user’s data collection and analysis Create open access research papers & findings Make “collections of connections” easy for users to manage

4. What we have done: Open Tools NodeXL Data providers (“spigots”) ThreadMill Message Board Exchange Enterprise Email Voson Hyperlink SharePoint Facebook Twitter YouTube Flickr

5. What we have done: Open Data NodeXLGraphGallery.org User generated collection of network graphs, datasets and annotations Collective repository for the research community Published collections of data from a range of social media data sources to help students and researchers connect with data of interest and relevance

6. What we have done: Open Scholarship Webshop 2011: NSF, Google, Intel 4 Days, 45 Students, 20 Speakers Great tweets! Webshop 2012! Expand numbers of students and add a day Support speakers and student workers Workshops: Purdue, Maryland, Cape Town, Yeungnam

7. What we have done: Open Scholarship

8. What we want to do: (Build the tools to) map the social web Move NodeXL to the web: Node for Google Doc Spreadsheets! WebGL Canvas Connect to more data sources of interest: RDF, MediaWikis, Gmail, NYT, Citation Networks Solve hard network manipulation UI problems: Modal transform, Time series, Automated layouts Grow and maintain archives of social media network data sets for research use. Improve network science education: Workshops on social media network analysis Live lectures and presentations Videos and training materials

9. 2012 Schedule: Planned Workshops January 2012 - Syracuse University March 2012 – Sunbelt June 2012 - ICWSM July 2012 – Lipari School on Complexity August 2012 – Webshop 2012

10. Work Items Autofill Group Attribute Merge Edges by Attribute Modal Transform Merge Workbooks Automated Dynamic Filters: Time Series Analysis, contrast Captions and Legends Upload to Graph Gallery++: captions, workbook Graph Gallery++ User Accounts, Reporting, RSS Feeds, Network Visualization Web Canvas Import: RDF, Wiki, SharePoint, Keyword networks from text Metrics: Triad Census Layouts: Force Atlas 2, Lin Log, “Bakshy Plots”, Quality Measures Query-by-example search for network structures

11. How you can help Sponsor a feature Sponsor Webshop 2012 Sponsor a student Schedule training Sponsor the foundation Donate your money, code, computation, storage, bandwidth, data or employee’s time Help promote the work of the Social Media Research Foundation

12. Thank you! The Social Media Research Foundation http://www.smrfoundation.org