Invited Talks
Social networking platforms offer people better opportunities to connect in an easy and timely manner, and to exchange and share various kinds of information. However, these platforms are based on a centralized paradigm, which limits the mobility of their users, and ultimately, their chances to establish new relationships and benefit from different networking services.
A decentralized paradigm for social networking, based on a clear separation between user's personal data + social connections, allows users to retain control of their profiles and the social networking platforms to focus on the delivery of innovative and competitive services.
This talk will include the demonstration
of the FOAF-o-MATIC tool for building
FOAF profiles
which will enable
the creation of
interoperable and
portable profiles
and social networks.
The Web is not just a huge aggregation of interlinked hypertexts but the place where people encounter and interact to each other. I will show the Web as the activity platform which includes "collect", "create", and "donate" activities for information management, and "relate", "collaborate", and "present" activities for social relationship management. I also show how a new type of creative activities is
emerging as human activities on Web, which is called massively creative collaboration.
Web of Documents, Web of People and Web of Creativity
The Integration and Portability of Semantic Social Networks via OKKAM
Assoc Prof Paolo Bouquet
Università degli Studi di Trento, Italia
Hideaki Takeda, Dr., Eng.
National Institute of Informatics, Japan