The Social Semantic Web

John Breslin is a researcher and adjunct lecturer at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include social software, online communities, and the Semantic Web. He is founder of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, and he also co-founded Irish community site boards.ie Ltd. Stefan Decker is a professor at and director of DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include the Semantic Web, digital libraries, and the social semantic desktop. Stefan has a PhD in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe. His dissertation work was quoted as one of the inspirations for the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) program, which spans the Semantic Web effort. Alexandre Passant is a post-doctoral researcher at DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests are Semantic Web and Social Software. Alexandre also feeds his own blog under www.apassant.net

to the book.- Motivation for applying Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web.- to the Social Web (Web 2.0, social media, social software).- Adding semantics to the Web.- Discussions.- Knowledge and information sharing.- Multimedia sharing.- Social tagging.- Social sharing of software.- Social networks.- Interlinking online communities.- Social Web applications in enterprise.- Towards the Social Semantic Web.

From the reviews:

"The book focuses mainly on the social Web and possibilities of its integration with the semantic Web. ... For Web developers, researchers, and graduate students, this book would be an ideal source for becoming acquainted with the evolving field of social applications on the Web. It may well fit into a seminar in information systems or related graduate study programs." (M. Bielikova, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2010)

"This book provides an easy-to-understand insight into Semantic Web and Social Web technologies and highlights research challenges when applying these technologies. ... each chapter provides a literature survey which provides an introduction state-of-the-art research from the domain. ... can be of interest for those, who consider using any of these Social Web applications in their research as well as those just want to get a solid foundation on the topic. ... IT professionals, researchers, academics and graduate students can all benefit from reading this book." (Frank Hopfgartner, Informer, January, 2012)