Privacy Customization in a Social Sharing Tool: Where Academic Publications Meet Social Platforms

Encyclia is a software tool to make ORCID records available on open social media platforms through the ActivityPub protocol. Through it, academic bibliographic information can gain additional visibility and interaction in the form of social posts, which raises new safety and privacy concerns. Advanced privacy settings on the Encyclia platform enable the personalization of information access and sharing. This paper discusses these privacy settings and systems as a case study for applying established personalization classifications from the academic literature. It differentiates implicit and explicit personalization via active user involvement and the dynamic role of the system itself in its purpose of bridging data across platforms.