ICWSM Tutorial: The Social Semantic Web May 23, 2010

For attendees of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media: http://www.icwsm.org

Abstract:

Web 2.0, a platform where people are connecting through their shared objects of interest, is encountering some boundaries in the areas of information integration, portability, search, and demanding tasks like querying. The Semantic Web is an ideal platform for interlinking and performing operations on the diverse data available from Web 2.0 “data silos”, and has produced a variety of approaches to overcome some of the limitations with Web 2.0. In this tutorial, Breslin and Passant aim to educate attendees on the applications of Semantic Web technologies to Web 2.0. They will also describe how Web 2.0 can serve as a very vaulable source of semantically-rich data for Semantic Web applications, solving the oft-quoted “chicken and egg” problem with the Semantic Web. The tutorial is intended for professionals, researchers, graduates, practitioners and developers who wish to learn how Semantic Web technologies can be applied to and leveraged by social software and social media systems.

Bios:

John Breslin is a lecturer in Engineering and Informatics at NUI Galway. He leads the Social Software Unit at DERI, NUI Galway, and is creator of the SIOC project which aims to interlink online communities with semantic technologies. He is co-founder of boards.ie Ltd. and an advisor to CrowdGather LLC.

Alexandre Passant is a postdoctoral researcher and adjunct lecturer at DERI, NUI Galway. His research focuses on the Semantic Web and social software. He is the author of MOAT, a framework that allows people to tag their content using semantic technologies, and he is also co-editor of the SIOC specification.