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SIOC: an approach to connect web-based communities

International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2006

Online communities are islands of people and topics that are not interlinked. Complementary discussions exist on disparate systems but it is currently difficult to exploit the available distributed information. A Semantically Interlinked Online Community (SIOC) can enable efficient information dissemination across communities by creating an ontology that will model concepts identified in discussion methods. Data instances can be accessed from community sites using this ontology, enabling connections between local and remote concept instances, and allowing queries on, or transfer of, the data. By searching on one forum, the ontology and interface will allow users to find information on other forums that use a SIOC-based system architecture. Other uses include cross-site querying, topic-related searches, and the importing of SIOC data into other systems. Fusing information and inferring links among various applications and types of information with SIOC provide relevant insights that make the community information available on the internet more valuable.

Towards Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities

2005

Online community sites have replaced the traditional means of keeping a community informed via libraries and publishing. At present, online communities are islands that are not interlinked. We describe different types of online communities and tools that are currently used to build and support such communities. Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies offer an upgrade path to providing more complex services. Fusing information and inferring links between the various applications and types of information provides relevant insights that make the available information on the Internet more valuable. We present the SIOC ontology which combines terms from vocabularies that already exist with new terms needed to describe the relationships between concepts in the realm of online community sites. 2

Linking Semantically-Enabled Online Community Sites

2004

Online community sites have replaced the traditional means of keeping a community informed via libraries and publishing. At present, online communities are islands that are not interlinked. We describe different types of online communities and tools that are currently used to build and support such communities. Ontologies and semantic web technologies offer an upgrade path to providing more complex services. Fusing

Connecting Local Community Groups Using Semantic Technologies

Connecting Local Community Groups Using Semantic Technologies, 2006

In this thesis an ontology was built based on a domain of information known as the Galway City Community Forum or the GCCF. The GCCF is a forum that grew out of the Irish government's 1996 initiative of "Better Local Government" as an attempt to aid the volunteering and community services sector within the local community. A number of similar fora have been established throughout all major towns and cities in Ireland comprising the same structure of that of an established forum for the city of Galway. Many communities online have similar interests, needs, information areas and ideas that overlap with one another. The searching facilities within the various community sites are limited to syntactic meaning only. Through the use of an ontology, a Semantic Web technology, a means is presented by which communities can connect to one another around Ireland through the established structure of the city community forum. In this way they can become more efficient and effective as a means of sharing collaborative knowledge and information semantically, irrespective of geographical and social borders and this also can help with more precise searching. The objective of this thesis is to create easy connectivity and to facilitate easy searching and querying of knowledge within Irish local communities by a means that is machine processable.

Ontoweb-a semantic web community portal

2002

This paper describes a semantic portal through which knowledge can be gathered, stored, secured and accessed by members of a certain community. In particular, this portal takes into account companies and research institutes participating in the EU funded thematic network called OntoWeb. Ontology-based annotation of information is a prerequisite in order to offer the possibility of knowledge retrieval and extraction.

Developing a repository of knowledge for virtual communities with semantic web technologies

2007

Abstract The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic means for implementing repositories of knowledge for virtual communities. However not every member of a virtual community knows these technologies and is ready to use them.

Using the Semantic Web for linking and reusing data across Web 2.0 communities

Journal of Web Semantics, 2008

Large volumes of content (bookmarks, reviews, videos, etc.) are currently being created on the "Social Web", i.e. on Web 2.0 community sites, and this content is being annotated and commented upon. The ability to view an individual's entire contribution to the Social Web would be an interesting and valuable service, particularly important as social networks are often being formed through created content and things that people have in common ("object-centred sociality"). SIOC is a Semantic Web research project that aims to describe online communities on the Social Web. This paper describes how SIOC and the Semantic Web can enable linking and reuse scenarios of data from Web 2.0 community sites, and introduces a SIOC Types module to further specify the type of content items and act as a "glue" between user posts and the content items created and annotated by users.