Social Networks and the Semantic Web

• Main Author: Mika, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: Semantic Web and Beyond, Computing for Human Experience, 5
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Database management.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Science, general.; Popular Computer Science.; Database Management.; Computer Communication Networks.; Social Sciences, general.

We are not just building the Web any more: we are on it. The latest set of applications have transformed the Web from a mere document collection into a social space: the new services developed under the banner of Web 2.0 cater to our needs of connecting through the medium and allow us to explicitly...

Table of Contents:

• to the Semantic Web and Social Networks
• The Semantic Web
• Social Network Analysis
• Web data and semantics in social network applications
• Electronic sources for network analysis
• Knowledge Representation on the Semantic Web
• Modelling and aggregating social network data
• Developing social-semantic applications
• Case studies
• Evaluation of web-based social network extraction
• Semantic-based Social Network Analysis in the sciences
• Ontologies are us: emergent semantics in folksonomy systems
• Conclusions
• The perfect storm.