Social Networks and the Semantic Web (Semantic Web and Beyond) (Hardcover)

~ Peter Mika (Author)
Key Phrases: description logic, web services, advice seeking network, Semantic Web, Frank van Harmelen, Second Life (more...)

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Whether we changed the Web or the Web has changed us is difficult to discern, even with the wisdom of hindsight. Social Networks and the Semantic Web provides two major case studies.

The first case study shows the possibilities of tracking a research community over the Web, combining the information obtained from the Web with other data sources, and analyzing the results. Social network mining from the Web plays an important role in this case study for obtaining large-scale, dynamic network data beyond the possibilities of survey methods. The second study highlights the role of the social context in user-generated classifications in content, such as the tagging systems known as folksonomies.

Social Networks and The Semantic Web is designed for researchers and advanced-level students of the semantic Web and Web services, information systems, social and information sciences. This book is useful for practitioners in industry as well.

Foreword by Frank van Harmelen, author of the Semantic Web Primer

Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (September 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387710000
• ISBN-13: 978-0387710006
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #563,281 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Semantic web meet social networks , March 23, 2009

By	R. F. Matheus (Brasil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book delineates a prominent research and application arena for the next years. As emphasized in the foreword, the strength of the book is to look at overlapping boundaries between social network and the Semantic Web.
Peter Mika shows how Semantic Web and social network analysis can work together as part of the [new] social and Semantic Web. Mika present the history of the fields, basic concepts, and, based upon his own academic research (e.g., Flink, openacademia), the IT infrastructure that support the integration of the Semantic Web and the social network analysis. The technological engine includes RDF, OWL, Sesame, Elmo, and other open source applications and standards.
This book is a must read for computer and information researchers. It is a good reading suggestion for practitioners and other researchers whose interests include social web concepts and applications, information classification, knowledge representation, data integration, visualization, web 2.0, and beyond.

4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 5 for Content and Relevance, Zero for Greed Pricing, June 3, 2008

By	Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

I am an author and publisher and I would have bought this book today had it been priced more honestly. It costs a penny a page to produce a book, and this book should not be sold for more than $29.95 (which is ten times cost, and also accounts for Amazon only paying 45% of retail to each publisher).

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