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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 bookmark- and 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.
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Alani, Harith
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Alani, Harith, Staab, Steffen and Stumme, Gerd (2008) Social Web Communities. Dagstuhl Seminar on Social Web Communities, Dagstuhl. 21 - 26 Sep 2008.

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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 bookmark- and 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.

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Published date: 2008
Additional Information: Event Dates: 21-26 September
Venue - Dates: Dagstuhl Seminar on Social Web Communities, Dagstuhl, 2008-09-21 - 2008-09-26
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 267001
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/267001
PURE UUID: ad147009-b0e7-4118-b48d-5b5cc7ddee0a

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Date deposited: 25 Dec 2008 13:09
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 08:40

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Author: Harith Alani
Author: Steffen Staab
Author: Gerd Stumme

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