SemanticWeb Research

Topics of Interest - Be sure to click the link in "Proceedings of the workshop is available here..." Submissions are invited on work relating the Semantic Web with Social Network Analysis. Both theoretical as well as applciation papers are welcome. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: * Social Network Analysis of the Semantic Web * Network Analysis Methods * Analysis of Large Online Communities (Wikipedia, DMOZ, EBay, ...) * Semantic Web Communities * Web Communities of Practice * Online Harvesting of Semantic Network Information * Network Analysis for Building the Semantic Web * Emergent Semantics in Communities * Change Detection * Self-organization and Management of Semantic Networks * Trust Issues in Semantic Networks * Semantic Network Metadata * Folksonomies * Communities in P2P systems * Online Social Networking (FOAF, Orkut, ...) * Applications of Online Semantic Networks * Knowledge Management with Semantic Networks

JiME Site - many useful/interesting articles

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The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the leading conference for research on Semantic Web topics. It is held annually and is the successor of the Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS).

The blogosphere is the most explosive social network you'll never see. Recent studies suggest that nearly 60 million blogs exist online, and about 175,000 more crop up daily (that's about 2 every second). Even though the vast majority of blogs are either abandoned or isolated, many bloggers like to link to other Web sites. These links allow analysts to track trends in blogs and identify the most popular topics of data exchange. Social media expert Matthew Hurst recently collected link data for six weeks and produced this plot of the most active and interconnected parts of the blogosphere.

ActiveMath is a complex web-based adaptive learning environment with a number of components and interactive learning tools. The basis for handling semantics of learning content is provided by its semantic (mathematics) content markup, which is additionally annotated with educational metadata.

Recent progress in mobile broadband communication and semantic web technology is enabling innovative internet services that provide advanced personalization and localization features. The goal of the SmartWeb project (duration: 2004-2007) is to lay the foundations for multimodal user interfaces to distributed and composable semantic Web services on mobile devices. The SmartWeb consortium brings together experts from various research communities: mobile services, intelligent user interfaces, language and speech technology, information extraction, and semantic Web technologies (see www.smartweb-project.org).

Tamara Munzner Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, June 2000. Abstract *Visualization/graphing strategy for large semantic networks is described. Very technical.* Many real-world domains can be represented as large node-link graphs: backbone Internet routers connect with 70,000 other hosts, mid-sized Web servers handle between 20,000 and 200,000 hyperlinked documents, and dictionaries contain millions of words defined in terms of each other. Computational manipulation of such large graphs is common, but previous tools for graph visualization have been limited to datasets of a few thousand nodes. Visual depictions of graphs and networks are external representations that exploit human visual processing to reduce the cognitive load of many tasks that require understanding of global or local structure. We assert that the two key advantages of computer-based systems for information visualization over traditional paper-based visual exposition are interactivity and scalability. We also argue that designing visualization software by taking the characteristics of a target user's task domain into account leads to systems that are more effective and scale to larger datasets than previous work.

The Semantic Network Service (SNS) of the Federal Environment Agency provides support for all questions concerning environmental terms including the common place names. SNS contains a bi-lingual (German/English) semantic network which consists of three components: * the Environmental Thesaurus UMTHES® with more than 50,000 inter-networked terms. (Descriptors and Non-Descriptors). * the Geo-Thesaurus-Environment (GTU) with more than 25,000 geographic names and the spatial intersections of all these places. * an Environmental Chronology containing more than 600 contemporary and historical events that affected the environment.

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(Developed in 2003) Papers and tutorials are worth looking at

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The European Academy for Semantic-Web Education, completely in English, involves studying one year at one of the above universities, and completing the second year with a stay in another of the partner universities. After this, the student may obtain, together with the European degree, a national Master of Science degrees for each of the visited universities (e.g., in Italy this would be the Laurea Specialistica degree).

Tom Gruber at Stanford University defines and conceptualizes ontologies as they are applied to the semantic web.

Shared resource for the community of builders working with the semantic web.

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Presentation Outline *Data Integration in the Life Sciences *Characterizing the Semantic Web *Oracle RDF Data Model *Customer Use Cases *W3C's Work in Health Care and Life Sciences