The Social Semantic Web

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The Social Web, encompassing platforms like MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress, has attracted millions of users and significant investment. However, these social websites face challenges in information integration, dissemination, and automation, among others. The Semantic Web offers a promising solution for interlinking diverse data related to people and their interests, providing various methods to address the limitations of Social Web applications. After an overview of both the Social Web and the Semantic Web, Breslin et al. examine popular social media and networking applications, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and explore how Semantic Web technology can enhance these platforms by adding semantics. They propose a dual strategy for connecting disparate social websites with semantic technologies and enriching semantic applications with user-generated content. The authors conclude that applying Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web is paving the way for the "Social Semantic Web" (or "Web 3.0"), which creates a network of interconnected, semantically-rich content and knowledge. This book is aimed at computer science professionals, researchers, and graduates seeking to understand the technologies and research challenges of applying Semantic Web technologies to social software, as well as practitioners and developers looking to improve automation in blogs, social networks, and wikis.