Social Web
The Next Generation
      Galway, 12 January 2011

       Dr. Alexandre Passant
          DERI, NUI Galway
   http://apassant.net - @terraces
Social Web
The New Generation
      Galway, 12 January 2011

       Dr. Alexandre Passant
          DERI, NUI Galway
   http://apassant.net - @terraces
http://web.archive.org/web/19980704011807/http://www2.geocities.com/
blogs, wikis, social
networking, ...




             By Matt Hamm @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/2945559128
700 billion
minutes per month on facebook


                   http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
90 million
 tweets per day


      http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/twitter-seeing-90-million-tweets-per-day/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/twitter-seeing-90-million-tweets-per-day/
24 hours
of video per minute on YouTube


                       http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet
200+ languages
    in Wikipedia


               http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
By David Simonds
By Chris Campbell Hamm @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cgc/5259321/
Can we do better ?
Can we do better ?
       Open
     Distributed
      Semantic
Open
       Share your data,
whenever and wherever you want
Distributed
  Own your data,
in your own space
Semantic
   Enhance your data,
to make more sense of it
How ?
How ?
How ?
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Original by Tim Berners-Lee @ http://www.w3.org/Talks/WWW94Tim/
Update by Dan Brickley @ http://www.slideshare.net/danbri/when-presentation-849447
lod-cloud.net
lod-cloud.net
Semantic Web ?
 Linked data ?

 Social Web ?
Social Semantic Web




                      Breslin et al. 2009
I think we could...have both Semantic Web
technology supporting online communities,
but at the same time also online
communities can also support Semantic
Web data by being the sources of people
voluntarily connecting things together.

      Tim Berners-Lee, ISWC2005 Interview
Languages
Resource
Description
Framework
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .

<http://example.org/dm110-semweb>
   dct:title
      “Introduction to the Semantic Web” ;
   dct:author
      <http://apassant.net/alex> ;
   dct:subject
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web> .
RDFa
RDFa
RDFa
SPARQL
SELECT ?person
WHERE {
    ?person a foaf:Person ;
    foaf:topic_interest :Web .
}
Ontologies
People and Social
   Networks



 foaf-project.org
homepage
 Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
                                                                isPrimaryTopicOf
                                                                     primaryTopic
                                                                         page
                                                                            topic
                                     owl:Thing                                                                         PersonalProfileDocument
                                                               depiction
based_near                           name                                      thumbnail
                                                              depicts
                                     rdfs:seeAlso
                                                         made maker
     geo:SpatialThing                                                        Image
                             geo:lat
                                                                                 tipjar
                                                                                                                Document          dc:title
                             geo:long                                                                                             dc:description
                                                           Agent                weblog
                                                                                                                                  dc:subject
                                                         gender                               img                                 dc:date
         Organization                                    jabberID                   openid                                        dc:format
                                                         mbox_sha1sum                                                             dc:rights
                                                         mbox                                       interest
                                                                                                                                  cc:requires
                                                         ya:blogActivity        Person              workplaceHomepage             cc:permits [...]
                                        member
                                                                               birthday                              accountServiceHomepage
                       Group                                                   nick
                                                                               givenName                  account
                                                                               familyName
       domain                         range                                    plan
                                                                               title    [...]
        smaller                          another
                        subClassOf
         Class                            Class                                bio:olb
 functional property: max 1 value per Thing
                                                                                                               OnlineAccount
                                                                           knows
                                                                                                                              accountName
     inverse functional: max 1 thing per value

 x
                                                                                             doap:Project                  sioc:UserAccount
                   p1
                                         inverse               Project                       doap:old-homepage
                                       properties:                                           doap:maintainer                 sioc:moderator_of
                  p2
                                       x p1 y = y p2 x
                                                                                             doap:developer                  sioc:administrator_of
                                 y
                                                                                             doap:translator [...]           sioc:subscriber_of [...]




                                                                                                                                             http://foaf-project.org
http://apassant.net/home/2008/01/foafgear/
Communities and
   Content



 sioc-project.org
Breslin et al. 2009
http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec
http://www.w3.org/TR/hcls-sioc/
Tagging




          Passant et al. 2009
Tagging




          Passant et al. 2009
Tagging




          Passant et al. 2009
Tagging




          Passant et al. 2009
commontag.org
:Apple   :Apple_Inc.   :Apple_Records
:Apple         :Apple_Inc.      :Apple_Records



:Species   :Computer_Hardware    :Rock_Music
Projects
drupal.org
status.net
smob.me

          Passant et al, 2010
Local SPARQL/Update




SMOB hub at http://apassant.net
                                                    HTTP POST


                              SPARQL/Update +
                                HTTP POST


                                                                http://twitter.com




                   SMOB hub at http://example.org
User-Interface

                  Topics      MOAT

             Data                SIOC

        Presence                     OPO

       Profiles                       SIOC

    People                                 FOAF

Representations                         Ontologies
Applications
Cross-commenting




             http://sindice.com/developers/siocwidget
Semantic SNA
   amazon:B000G01ABM


          dc:subject    moat:taggedWith


dbpedia:Toy       dbpedia:Transformers


                            skos:subject


              dbpedia:Category:Transformers                    imdb:tt0142032                  youtube:ajkPBl2LMM


                            skos:broader                         foaf:topic     linkedmdb:genre moat:taggedWith moat:taggedWith


    dbpedia:Category:Science_fiction_by_franchise    dbpedia:Dune_(film)        dbpedia:Science_fiction     dbpedia:Animation


                                               skos:broader                     skos:subject


                                                dbpedia:Category:Science_fiction




                                                                                                                                Kinsella et al. 2010
Semantic SNA




               Kinsella et al. 2010
Mash-ups




           http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DBpediaMobile
Expert finding

SELECT ?who WHERE {
    ?who foaf:topic_interest
       dbpedia:Semantic_Web ;
    foaf:based_near dbpedia:Galway.
}


                          Try it on http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql
Cross-domain
  recommendations

:alex         foaf:knows                    :yves   foaf:knows          :tom




                      foaf:topic_interest                        foaf:topic_interest




        dbpedia:Ramones                                           dbpedia:Rancid




                                                                                       Passant and Raimond 2008
Challenges
Trust and Privacy,
  Provenance ...
webid.info
Orlandi et al, 2010
What’s next ?
Ubiquitous
Real-time
Pro-active
Sakaki et al, 2010
Sakaki et al, 2010
code.google.com/p/sparqlpush
                        Passant and Mendes 2010
bit.ly/twarql
                Mendes et al. 2010
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/papers/sensors.html
Standardisation
References
•   Passant and Raimond 2008. “Combining Social Music and Semantic Web for music-related
    recommender systems” SDOW, 2008.
•   Passant et al. 2009. “A URI is Worth a Thousand Tags: From Tagging to Linked Data with MOAT”.
    IJSWIS, 2009
•   Breslin et al. 2009. “The Social Semantic Web”. Springer, 2009
•   Sakaki et al. 2009. “Earthquake Shakes Twitter Users: Real-time Event Detection by Social
    Sensors”. WWW, 2009
•   Kinsella et al. 2010. “Using hyperlinks to enrich message board content with linked data”. I-
    SEMANTICS, 2010
•   Passant et al. 2010. “Open, Distributed and Semantic Microblogging with SMOB”. ICWE, 2010
•   Passant and Mendes 2010 “sparqlPuSH: Proactive notification of data updates in RDF stores
    using PubSubHubbub”. SFSW, 2010
•   Mendes et al. 2010. “Linked Open Social Signals”. Web Intelligence, 2010
•   Orlandi et al. 2010. “Semantic Representation of Provenance in Wikipedia”. SWPM, 2010
Questions ?
       Acknowledgements:

DERI and USS colleagues & students
           SFI (Lion2)
        EU FP7 (SPITFIRE)
     Google Research Award
           Cisco RFP
            IRCSET

Social Web - The Next Generation

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  • #5 We cannot deny the Social Web impact\nIs there anyone that has never used FaceBook or Twitter here ?\n
  • #6 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
  • #7 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
  • #8 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
  • #9 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
  • #10 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
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  • #14 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
  • #15 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
  • #16 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
  • #17 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
  • #18 If another proof is needed to show that the Social Web is wealthy: Users spend about 16 billion minutes on Facebook per day, as per recent statistics.\nAnd 500 million users.\n
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  • #28 That&amp;#x2019;s where the Social Semantic Web vision comes into account\nBringing together the Social Connectivity and Semantics on the Web\nLEading to Social Semantic Information Spaces\n
  • #29 This win-win situation is agreed by TimBL itself\n
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  • #75 Another question I was asked to prepare the panel, is what&amp;#x2019;s the future of the Social Semantic Web\n
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