Advogato Trust Network
A Advogato dataset of 6,551 users, 51,317 trust relationships, collected by Massa et al. (2009) via Advogato platform. Each record contains directed, weighted trust edges between users, representing explicit trust relationships expressed by users. Advogato trust network where users express weighted trust relationships, enabling research on trust propagation and social influence in online communities. Suitable for trust network analysis, influence propagation, social influence studies, trust-based recommendation systems.
Cite this dataset at
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Analytics
The full graph has 6,551 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
advogato- Authors
- Massa, Paolo; Salvetti, Martino; Tomasoni, Danilo
- Year
- 2009
- Source paper
- Bowling Alone and Trust Decline in Social Network Sites
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1109/DASC.2009.130
- License
- See source page for citation/usage terms.
- Records
- 6,551
- Nodes
- 6,551
- Edges
- 51,317 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- trust
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2009 (2000s)
- Tasks
- Edge sign prediction (binary) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://networkrepository.com/soc-advogato.php link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 583.3 KB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Bowling Alone and Trust Decline in Social Network Sites
P. Massa, Martino Salvetti, Danilo Tomasoni
Journal Article · 2009 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing · 2009
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@inproceedings{Massa_2009,
title = {Bowling Alone and Trust Decline in Social Network Sites},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DASC.2009.130},
doi = {10.1109/dasc.2009.130},
booktitle = {2009 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing},
publisher = {IEEE},
author = {Massa, Paolo and Salvetti, Martino and Tomasoni, Danilo},
year = {2009},
month = Dec,
pages = {658–663}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Massa, P., Salvetti, M., & Tomasoni, D. (2009). Advogato Trust Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC.2009.130
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Massa, Paolo, et al. Advogato Trust Network. 2009, doi.org/10.1109/DASC.2009.130.