The Social Semantic Web

• Main Authors: Breslin, John G. (Author), Passant, Alexandre (Author), Decker, Stefan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Computers and civilization.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computers and Society.

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. Social websites, evolving around the connections between people and their objects of interest, are encount...