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Table of Contents

Posted Mon, 12/07/2009 - 15:07 by johnbreslin

1 Introduction to the book

1.1 Overview
1.2 Aims of the book, and who will benefit from it?
1.3 Structure of the book
    1.3.1 Motivation for applying Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web
    1.3.2 Introduction to the Social Web (Web 2.0, social media, social software)
    1.3.3 Adding semantics to the Web
    1.3.4 Discussions
    1.3.5 Knowledge and information sharing
    1.3.6 Multimedia sharing
    1.3.7 Social tagging

Authors

Posted Mon, 12/07/2009 - 12:52 by johnbreslin

John Breslin is currently a lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the School of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway). He is also an associate researcher and leader of the Social Software Unit at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway, researching semantically-enabled social networks and community portals.

Summary

Posted Mon, 12/07/2009 - 12:31 by johnbreslin

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 encountering boundaries in the areas of information integration, dissemination, reuse, portability, searchability, automation and demanding tasks like querying.

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Posted Mon, 12/07/2009 - 12:15 by johnbreslin