Social media sites, including social networking sites, have captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition. To better enable a user’s access to multiple sites, portability between social media sites is required in terms of both (1) the personal profiles and friend networks and (2) a user’s content objects expressed on each site. This req...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a tool that generates authority files to be integrated with linked data by means of learning rules. AUTHORIS is software developed to enhance authority control and information exchange among bibliographic and non-bibliographic entities. Design/methodology/approach – The article analyzes different methods previously developed for authority contro...

This paper focuses on two of three related projects that are currently being undertaken as part of a larger investigation into whether the semantic web can be brought to hobbyist groups on the Internet. A lot of research is being done into the semantic web and creating semantic web applications. This research tends to fall into two categories academic applications such as AKTive Space or simple...

Collaboration, interaction and information sharing are the main driving forces of the current generation of web applications referred to as ‘Web 2.0’ [47]. Well-known examples of this emerging trend include weblogs (online diaries or journals for sharing ideas instantly), Friend-Of-A-Friend1 (FOAF) files (machine-readable documents describing basic properties of a person, including links betwee...

Web 2.0 applications and the increasingly use of social networks have been creating new informal learning opportunities. Students interact and collaborate using new learning environments which are structurally different from traditional e-learning environments. In these informal unstructured learning contexts the boundaries between the learning contexts and social spheres disappear, and the def...

Zusammenfassung. SemaPlorer ist eine einfach zu bedienende Anwendung, die es Endanwendern erlaubt, einen verteilten, sehr großen Datensatz gemischter Qualität und von heterogener Semantik in Echtzeit zu explorieren und zu visualisieren. Benutzer können sich damit über eine interessante Region wie eine Stadt oder Ferienregion informieren. Die Visualisierung erfolgt mit Hilfe einer Karte, Mediena...

Researchers need to share information about their publications. They also desire to share opinions and comments about each other’s publications. The paper describes a system which demonstrates how semantic blogging can be used for the purpose. The SWRC ontology has been incorporated in the blogging system for entering the metadata of publications. The semantic blogging system provides means to ...

Schema information about resources in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud can be provided in a twofold way: it can be explicitly defined by attaching RDF types to the resources. Or it is provided implicitly via the definition of the resources’ properties. In this paper, we analyze the correlation between the two sources of schema information. To this end, we have extracted schema information regar...

Managing one’s memberships in different online communities increasingly becomes a cumbersome task. This is due to the increasing number of communities in which users participate and in which they share information with different groups of people like colleagues, sports clubs, groups with specific interests, family, friends, and others. These groups use different platforms to perform their tasks...

The digital revolution has been a big shift in the creation, publication and storage of our digital heritage. New file formats and supports have followed over the years to produce and reproduce audio, photos and video. Based on these observations, the Puglia region started the Puglia Digital Library project with the aim to collect in a single public collection all the digital contents related t...