Reflections and learnings from a graduate-level independent study course on Community Based Participatory Research with urban Aboriginal community organizations.

The explosion in user-generated content (on the Social Web) published from mobile devices has seen microblog platforms like Twitter grow exponentially. Twitter is a microblogging platform founded in 2006, which by October 2010 had roughly 175m users and as of June 2011, Twitter processed 200m posts per day. Twitter data has been utilised to predict/report natural disasters, civil unrest, and me...

Sentiment analysis as well as topic extraction and named entity recognition are emerging methods used in the field of Web Mining. Next to SQL-like querying and according visualization, new ways of organization have become possible. In this demo paper we apply efficient clustering algorithms that stem from the image retrieval field to sioc:Post entities, blending similarity scores of sentiment a...

The rapid development of e-Participation research in the last decade has resulted in fragmented, loosely related e-Participation models. In our previous work we established a comprehensive Integrative Framework combining existing models. In this paper we move further and conceptualize the elements strictly related to socio-technical aspects of e-Participation by constructing a formal ontology f...

This chapter discusses the relation between Social Networks and Semantics – two areas that have recently gathered a lot of attention from both academia and industry. We show how synergies between these two areas can be used to solve concrete problems, and we describe three approaches that demonstrate the potential for interconnecting these technologies. The first approach focuses on the semanti...

In this paper, UniGrad, an ontology that extends FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) with graduate education and research concepts has been presented. Nowadays, having lots of information exist throughout the Web, e.g. for academicians and researchers, finding a specialist in an area as a query is somehow cumbersome. The proposed technique is using Semantic Web technology including ontologies such as FOA...