A semantic social network is the result of the application of
Semantic Web technologies to
social networks and online social media.
History
The term Semantic Social Networks was coined independently by Stephen Downes an
Marco Neumannin 2004 to describe the application of Semantic Web technologies and online social networks. In particular the use of
RDF,
FOAF
FOAF (an acronym of friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to describe themselves. FOAF allows groups of people to describe soc ...
and
social network metrics for ''"SNEACHTA"'', a community portal project, to improve search results for online resources and content management for personalized content selection and display demonstrates this concept. A Semantic Social Network Portal project applied to th
PUII(Programme for University Industry Interface) to support efforts in enterprise training units to identify up-skilling needs of the employee in the company and to simplify the creation and reuse of knowledge in online communities. In 2005 the concepts of Semantic Social Networks were applied to th
Lotico Semantic Webto demonstrate the effectiveness of the research results to augmented
communities of interest.
In 2007 a team of French researchers at
INRIA applied Semantic Social Network concepts and established formal methods for ontology matching. And in 2009 more researchers around the world started to implement Semantic Social Networks amongst them a team in Iran applied the concepts of Semantic Social Networks in order to facilitate organizational collaboration and expertise finding in decentralized organizations
[Fatalian, A., Nayeri, Z. A., and Azadnia, M. 2009. Impact of Using Semantic Social Networks on Organizations. In Proceedings of the 2009 international Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining - Volume 00 (July 20–22, 2009). International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 47-52. {{doi, 10.1109/ASONAM.2009.13] to Rayan Faragard, a software development company. They then performed social network analysis from the network they had gathered by FOAF tags which showed that using semantic social networks greatly increases the reliability, effectiveness and collaboration.
References
Social networks