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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Alani, Harith Staab, Steffen Stumme, Gerd |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Blogs, Wikis, and Social Bookmark Tools have rapidly emerged on the Web. The reasons for their immediate success are that people are happy to share information, and that these tools provide an infrastructure for doing so without requiring any specific skills. At the moment, there exists no foundational research for these systems, and they provide only very simple structures for organising knowledge. Individual users create their own structures, but these can currently not be exploited for knowledge sharing. The objective of the seminar was to provide theoretical foundations for upcoming Web 2.0 applications and to investigate further applications that go beyond bookmarkand file-sharing. The main research question can be summarized as follows: How will current and emerging resource sharing systems support users to leverage more knowledge and power from the information they share on Web 2.0 applications? Research areas like Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Social Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Library and Information Sciences, and Hypermedia Systems have been working for a while on these questions. In the workshop, researchers from these areas came together to assess the state of the art and to set up a road map describing the next steps towards the next generation of social software. 1 Topic of the Seminar Within the last two years, social software on the Web, such as Flickr, Delicious, Bibsonomy, Facebook, etc., has received a tremendous impact with regard to hundred of millions of users. A key factor to the success of social software tools in the Web is their grass-roots approach to sharing of information between users: there are no limitations on the kind of tags users may select. The resulting structures are often called ‘folksonomies’, that is, ‘taxonomies’ created by ‘folks’. Such systems are also considered to realize a Web version 2.0. The reason is that the initial use of the Web could be characterized by many users consuming what a comparatively small set of producers had developed, whereas with social software on the Web, everyone becomes a prosumer, i.e. someone who produces and consumes content. The Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 08391 Social Web Communities http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2008/1786 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://oro.open.ac.uk/20019/1/08391.SWM.Paper.1786.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
