Large volumes of content (bookmarks, reviews, videos, etc.) are currently being created on the “Social Web”, i.e. on Web 2.0 community sites, nd this content is being annotated and commented upon. The ability to view an individual’s entire contribution to the Social Web would be an nteresting and valuable service, particularly important as social networks are often being formed through created ...

The SIOC project is aimed at expressing information about the structure and content of online community sites and at enabling interoperability on the Social Web using Semantic Web technologies. In this paper we briefly describe the SIOC project, introduce the SIOC Core ontology and its modules, and discuss some SIOC-based applications in terms of human and agent communication.

Among the activities that people participate in on the Social Web are argumentative discussions and decision making. This paper analyzes a series of use-cases (from the perspective of social media sites) that share the presence of such argumentative discussions and where the structure of online discussions can be represented in SIOC. Our goal is to externalize implicit argumentation structures ...

Following and understanding discussions on mailing lists is a prevalent task for executives and policy makers in order to get an impression of one’s company image. However, existing solutions providing a Web-based archive require substantial manual effort to search for or filter certain information. With mle we propose a new way to automatically process mailing list archives. The tool is realis...

Copyright Statement Copyright 2013 SIOC, CAS, Shanghai & WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is theauthor-manuscript version of the following article: Deposition of SnO2 on the Anatase TiO2 {105} Facets with High Photocatalytic Performance, Chinese Journal of Chemistry, Volume 31, Issue 12, pages 1503–1507, December, 2013, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org...

This paper presents a 15-item classification for MediaWiki Talk pages comments, associated with a new lightweight ontology that extends SIOC to represent these categories. We discuss how this ontology can enhance MediaWiki Talk pages, with RDFa, making content of such pages easier to parse and to understand.

The SIOC Ontology can be used to express information from the online community sites in a machine-readable form using RDF. This rich data structure allows us to easily analyse and extract social relations from these community sites. We use SIOC information to analyse the social relations between users through the content that they create. We introduce metrics for social neighbourhood and social...

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 com...

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...

SWAN/SIOC is an alignment of two Web ontologies that, taken together, represent Scientific Discourse in online communities at different levels of granularity (content items and discourse elements). The goal of this alignment is to make the discourse structure and component relationships much more accessible to computation, so that information can be navigated, compared and understood in a conte...