The social semantic web / John G. Breslin, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker.

Author/creator Breslin, John G.
Other author Passant, Alexandre.
Other author Decker, Stefan (Stefan Josef), 1968-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHeidelberg ; New York : Springer,
Descriptionix, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Springer Nature - Springer Computer Science eBooks 2009 English International
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Springer Books
Subjects
Semantic Web.
World Wide Web--Social aspects.
Online social networks.

Contents 1 Introduction to the book 1 -- 1.1 Overview 1 -- 1.2 Aims of the book, and who will benefit from it? 3 -- 1.3 Structure of the book 4 -- 1.3.1 Motivation for applying Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web 5 -- 1.3.2 Introduction to the Social Web (Web 2.0, social media, social software) 5 -- 1.3.3 Adding semantics to the Web 6 -- 1.3.4 Discussions 6 -- 1.3.5 Knowledge and information sharing 6 -- 1.3.6 Multimedia sharing 7 -- 1.3.7 Social tagging 7 -- 1.3.8 Social sharing of software 7 -- 1.3.9 Social networks 8 -- 1.3.10 Interlinking online communities 8 -- 1.3.11 Social Web applications in enterprise 8 -- 1.3.12 Towards the Social Semantic Web 9 -- 2 Motivation for applying Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web 11 -- 2.1 Web 2.0 and the Social Web 11 -- 2.2 Addressing limitations in the Social Web with semantics 13 -- 2.3 The Social Semantic Web: more than the sum of its parts 15 -- 2.4 A food chain of applications for the Social Semantic Web 17 -- 2.5 A practical Social Semantic Web 19 -- 3 Introduction to the Social Web (Web 2.0, social media, social software) 21 -- 3.1 from the Web to a Social Web 21 -- 3.2 Common technologies and trends 25 -- 3.2.1 RSS 25 -- 3.2.2 AJAX 27 -- 3.2.3 Mashups 28 -- 3.2.4 Advertising 30 -- 3.2.5 The Web on any device 32 -- 3.2.6 Content delivery 34 -- 3.2.7 Cloud computing 35 -- 3.2.8 Folksonomies 38 -- 3.3 Object-centred sociality 39 -- 3.4 Licensing content 42 -- 3.5 Be careful before you post 42 -- 3.6 Disconnects in the Social Web 44 -- 4 Adding semantics to the Web 45 -- 4.1 A brief history 45 -- 4.2 The need for semantics 47 -- 4.3 Metadata 51 -- 4.3.1 Resource Description Framework (RDF) 52 -- 4.3.2 The RDF syntax 54 -- 4.4 Ontologies 56 -- 4.4.1 RDF Schema 59 -- 4.4.2 Web Ontology Language (OWL) 61 -- 4.5 SPARQL 62 -- 4.6 The 'lowercase' semantic web, including microformats 64 -- 4.7 Semantic search 66 -- 4.8 Linking Open Data 67 -- 4.9 Semantic mashups 69 -- 4.10 Addressing the Semantic Web 'chicken-and-egg' problem 71 -- 5 Discussions 75 -- 5.1 The world of boards, blogs and now microblogs 75 -- 5.2 Blogging 76 -- 5.2.1 The growth of blogs 77 -- 5.2.2 Structured blogging 79 -- 5.2.3 Semantic blogging 81 -- 5.3 Microblogging 85 -- 5.3.1 The Twitter phenomenon 88 -- 5.3.2 Semantic microblogging 89 -- 5.4 Message boards 91 -- 5.4.1 Categories and tags on message boards 92 -- 5.4.2 Characteristics of forums 94 -- 5.4.3 Social networks on message boards 97 -- 5.5 Mailing lists and IRC 100 -- 6 Knowledge and information sharing 103 -- 6.1 Wikis 103 -- 6.1.1 The Wikipedia 105 -- 6.1.2 Semantic wikis 105 -- 6.1.3 DBpedia 110 -- 6.1.4 Semantics-based reputation in the Wikipedia 111 -- 6.2 Other knowledge services leveraging semantics 112 -- 6.2.1 Twine 112 -- 6.2.2 The Internet Archive 115 -- 6.2.3 Powerset 117 -- 6.2.4 OpenLink Data Spaces 119 -- 6.2.5 Freebase 119 -- 7 Multimedia sharing 121 -- 7.1 Multimedia management 121 -- 7.2 Photo-sharing services 122 -- 7.2.1 Modelling RDF data from Flickr 123 -- 7.2.3 Annotating images using Semantic Web technologies 125 -- 7.3 Podcasts 126 -- 7.3.1 Audio podcasts 127 -- 7.3.2 Video podcasts 129 -- 7.3.3 Adding semantics to podcasts 131 -- 7.4 Music-related content 133 -- 7.4.1 DBTune and the Music Ontology 133 -- 7.4.2 Combining social music and the Semantic Web 134 -- 8 Social tagging 137 -- 8.1 Tags, tagging and folksonomies 137 -- 8.1.1 Overview of tagging 137 -- 8.1.2 Issues with free-form tagging systems 140 -- 8.2 Tags and the Semantic Web 142 -- 8.2.1 Mining taxonomies and ontologies from folksonomies 143 -- 8.2.2 Modelling folksonomies using Semantic Web technologies 144 -- 8.3 Tagging applications using Semantic Web technologies 148 -- 8.3.1 Annotea 148 -- 8.3.2 Revyu.com 149 -- 8.3.3 SweetWiki 151 -- 8.3.4 int.ere.st 151 -- 8.3.5 LODr 152 -- 8.3.6 Atom Interface 153 -- 8.3.7 Faviki 154 -- 8.4 Advanced querying capabilities thanks to semantic tagging 155 -- 8.4.1 Show items with the tag 'semanticweb' on any platform 155 -- 8.4.2 List the ten latest items tagged by Alexandre on SlideShare 155 -- 8.4.3 List the tags used by Alex on SlideShare and by John on Flickr 157 -- 8.4.4 Retrieve any content tagged with something relevant to the Semantic Web field 158 -- 9 Social sharing of software 159 -- 9.1 Software widgets, applications and projects 159 -- 9.2 Description of a Project (DOAP) 160 -- 9.2.1 Examples of DOAP use 161 -- 9.3 Crawling and browsing software descriptions 164 -- 9.4 Querying project descriptions and related data 166 -- 9.4.1 Locating software projects from people you trust 166 -- 9.4.2 Locating a software project related to a particular topic 167 -- 10 Social networks 169 -- 10.1 Overview of social networks 169 -- 10.2 Online social networking services 173 -- 10.3 Some psychology behind SNS usage 175 -- 10.4 Niche social networks 177 -- 10.5 Addressing some limitations of social networks 179 -- 10.6 Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) 181 -- 10.6.1 Consolidation of people objects 184 -- 10.6.2 Aggregating a person's web contributions 186 -- 10.6.3 Inferring relationships from aggregated data 187 -- 10.7 hCard and XFN 189 -- 10.8 The Social Graph API and OpenSocial 190 -- 10.8.1 The Social Graph API 190 -- 10.8.2 OpenSocial 192 -- 10.9 The Facebook Platform 193 -- 10.10 Some social networking initiatives from the W3C 194 -- 10.11 A social networking stack 194 -- 11 Interlinking online communities 197 -- 11.1 The need for semantics in online communities 197 -- 11.2 Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) 198 -- 11.2.1 The SIOC ontology 201 -- 11.2.2 SIOC metadata format 203 -- 11.2.3 SIOC modules 205 -- 11.3 Expert finding in online communities 206 -- 11.3.1 FOAF for expert finding 208 -- 11.3.2 SIOC for expert finding 209 -- 11.4 Connections between community description formats 211 -- 11.5 Distributed conversations and channels 212 -- 11.6 SIOC applications 215 -- 11.7 A food chain for SIOC data 216 -- 11.7.1 SIOC producers 218 -- 11.7.2 SIOC collectors 223 -- 11.7.3 SIOC consumers 224 -- 11.8 RDFa for interlinking online communities 231 -- 11.9 Argumentative discussions in online communities 234 -- 11.10 Object-centred sociality in online communities 236 -- 11.11 Data portability in online communities 238 -- 11.11.1 The DataPortability working group 238 -- 11.11.2 Data portability with FOAF and SIOC 240 -- 11.11.3 Connections between portability efforts 241 -- 11.12 Online communities for health care and life sciences 242 -- 11.12.1 Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine 243 -- 11.12.2 Science Collaboration Framework 244 -- 11.12.3 bio-zen and the art of scientific community maintenance 246 -- 11.13 Online presence 246 -- 11.14 Online attention 247 -- 11.15 The SIOC data competition 247 -- 12 Social Web applications in enterprise 251 -- 12.1 Overview of Enterprise 2.0 251 -- 12.2 Issues with Enterprise 2.0 255 -- 12.2.1 Social and philosophical issues with Enterprise 2.0 255 -- 12.2.1 Technical issues with Enterprise 2.0 258 -- 12.3 Improving Enterprise 2.0 ecosystems with semantic technologies 262 -- 12.3.1 Introducing SemSLATES 262 -- 12.3.2 Implementing semantics in Enterprise 2.0 ecosystems 263 -- 12.3.3 SIOC for collaborative work environments 266 -- 13 Towards the Social Semantic Web 269 -- 13.1 Possibilities for the Social Semantic Web 269 -- 13.2 A community-guided Social Semantic Web 271 -- 13.2.1 Wisdom of the crowds and the Semantic Web 272 -- 13.2.2 A grassroots approach 273 -- 13.2.3 The vocabulary onion 275 -- 13.3 Integrating with the Social Semantic Desktop 278 -- 13.4 Privacy and identity on the Social Semantic Web 279 -- 13.4.1 Keeping privacy in mind 279 -- 13.4.2 Identity fragmentation 280 -- 13.5 The vision of a Social Semantic Web 281.
Summary The social web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress) has captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition.
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