Introduction to the Social Data on the Web Workshop

8th International Semantic Web ConferenceWashington DC, 25th October 2009

Uldis Bojars1, John G. Breslin1, 2, Sergio Fernandez3, Alexandre Passant2

1 DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland 2 School of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway, Ireland

3 Fundacion CTIC, Spain


Introduction


The aim of this workshop

• “To bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites…

• …as well as academics researching more formal aspects of the interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web”


Topics of interest

• Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies

• Creating RDF-based knowledge using social media services

• Data portability and social network portability

• Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Web

• Enriching the Social Web with semantic data - RDFa, microformats and other approaches

• Linked data on the Social Web - providing linked data from social media sites

• Mining and analysis of social data

• Ontologies for the Social Web - developing, using and extending lightweight ontologies for social media sites

• Querying and mining social semantic data

• Policies, authentication, security, and trust within collaborative scenarios

• Producing Semantic Web data from social software applications

• Reasoning for Social Web applications

• Semantic blogging, wikis and social networks

• Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)

• Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation

• Using Semantic Web technologies for social data integration


Thanks to our distinguished programme committee

• Alessandra Toninelli, Università di Bologna, Italy

• Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Dan Brickley, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Denny Vrandecic, DFKI, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

• Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain

• Eric Prud'hommeaux, MIT / W3C, USA

• Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France

• Frederick Giasson, Zitgist, Canada

• Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI, Univ. of Kalrsruhe, Germany

• Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

• Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK

• Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

• Jose E. Labra, University of Oviedo, Spain

• Josephine Griffith, NUI Galway, Ireland

• Kotaro Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan

• Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

• Libby Miller, BBC, UK

• Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

• Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA

• Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK

• Masahide Kanzaki, Keio University, Japan

• Matthew Rowe, University of Sheffield, UK

• Meena Nagarajan, Wright State University, USA

• Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

• Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

• Sebastien Dietzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany

• Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK

• Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany

• Susie M. Stephens, Eli Lilly, USA

• Stefan Decker, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

• Steve Harris, Garlik, UK

• Valdis Krebs, orgnet.com, USA

• Yves Raimond, BBC, UK


Schedule


9:15 AM Keynote SpeakerUnderstanding and Exploiting Social Data - What, Why and How People Write on Social Media

• Meenakshi Nagarajan


9:40 AMThe NoTube Beancounter: Aggregating User Data for Television Programme Recommendation

• Chris van Aart, Lora Aroyo, Yves Raimond, Dan Brickley, Guus Schreiber, Michele Minno, Libby Miller, Davide Palmisano, Michele Mostarda, Ronald Siebes and Vicky Buser


10:05 AMContinuous Queries and Real-time Analysis of Social Semantic Data with C-SPARQL

• Davide Francesco Barbieri, Daniele Braga, Stefano Ceri, Emanuele Della Valle and Michael Grossniklaus


10:30 AMCoffee11:00 AM


11:00 AMMapping between Digital Identity Ontologies through SISM

• Matthew Rowe


11:15 AMMultiple Personalities on the Web: A Study of Shared Mboxes in FOAF

• Jennifer Golbeck, Thameem Khan, Nilay Sanghavi and Nishita Thakker


11:40 AMFOAF on Air - Context-Aware User Profiles for the Social Web

• Sebastian Boehm and Marko Luther


Folksonomy Resources as a Data Source for Social Data in the Semantic Web

• Francisco Echarte, José Javier Astrain, Alberto Córdoba and Jesús Villadangos

Cancelled


12:05 PM Discussion PanelHere and Now: Most Interesting about the Social Semantic Web

• Speakers and You

• Suggest topics at http://tinyurl.com/sdow2009


Sample discussion topic:SSW applications like semantic microblogging, and real-time search of its structure and content

Platforms

• StatusNet

• SMOB

• Smesher

Microdata

• Microturtle

• Microsyntax

• Star Priority


12:50 PMLunch2:15 PM


2:15 PMThe Mobile Wine Agent: Pairing Wine with the Social Semantic Web

• Evan Patton and Deborah McGuinness


2:40 PMSemantic History: Towards Modeling and Publishing Changes of Online Semantic Data

• Jie Bao, Li Ding and Deborah L. McGuinness


3:05 PMSiocLog: Providing IRC discussion logs as Linked Data

• Tuukka Hastrup, Uldis Bojars and John G. Breslin


3:30 PMCoffee4:00 PM


4:00 PMFreemix: Social Networking Meets Data

• David Feeney, David Wood, Eric Miller, Uche Ogbuji


Reactivity and Social Data: Keys to Drive Decisions in Social Network Applications

• Philipp Kärger, Emily Kigel and Daniel Olmedilla

Cancelled


4:25 PM Social Networks of an Emergent Massively Collaborative Creation Community

• Masahiro Hamasaki and Hideaki Takeda


4:50 PM Discussion PanelThe Future: Most Wanted for the Social Semantic Web

• Speakers and You

• Suggest topics at http://tinyurl.com/sdow2009


Sample discussion topic:The usage of emerging SSW data, such as the forthcoming RDFa support in Drupal 7

• Other data providers

• Yahoo! SearchMonkey

• Google Rich Snippets


5:35 PMClose


A small competition


Win a copy of our book! E-mail a discussion topic to [email protected]...(or hand it to me on a piece of paper!)


Social media channels

• Our page is at:

– http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2009

• The tag for this event is “sdow2009”

• For example:

– http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#sdow2009

– http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/sdow2009

– http://www.slideshare.net/tag/sdow2009

• You may also choose to use the “iswc2009” tag


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