1. The document discusses DERI, a research institute focused on the semantic web and social semantic web. 2. It describes DERI's work developing the SIOC ontology to represent data from social websites on the semantic web in a standardized and interoperable way. 3. The SIOC ontology aims to connect users and data across different social/collaborative websites and allow users to easily move between sites while bringing their data.

1. Enhancing the Web Experience: DERI, Social Semantic Web and SIOC John Breslin, Digital Enterprise Research Institute College of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway Engineers Ireland Annual Conference / Tullamore / 23 rd April 2009

4. Research units and streams in the DERI house

5. The Social Web lets like-minded people connect through shared photos, slides, books, whatever…

6. Explosion of social / collaborative websites (disconnected)

7. Social websites are like data silos * Source: Pidgin Technologies, www.pidgintech.com Need ways to connect users / data on these islands * Source: Pidgin Technologies, www.pidgintech.com Allowing users to easily move from one to another * Source: Pidgin Technologies, www.pidgintech.com Enabling users to easily bring their data with them * Source: Pidgin Technologies, www.pidgintech.com

9. It’s all a big graph of triples! #Bob #Alice dbpedia.org/ resource/ Guitar Alice Cooper knows interest name interest Metadata Ontology xmlns.com/ foaf/0.1/ Person xmlns.com/ foaf/0.1/ Person www.w3.org/ 1999/02/ 22-rdf-syntax-ns# resource www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Literal knows interest name interest type type type

10. Towards a Social Semantic Web

17. 2. The SIOC food chain

18. Navigating across SIOC-enabled sites via Sindice

19. Collaborative workspace interoperability with SIOC

20. 3. Dissemination

22. Obama SIOC!

23. Some examples of where SIOC is already in use

24. Networking knowledge via a Social Semantic Web