Congrats Peter!
what about a few open content excerpts (I try)
cheers!
p
On 10/30/07, Peter Mika <pmika@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:(Apologies for cross-postings)
I'm pleased to announce the availability of my book:
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE SEMANTIC WEB
Author: Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)
Series: Semantic Web and Beyond
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http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval?SGWID=4-153-69-173624824-0>
, Vol. 5
**2007, XIV, 234 p. 74 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-387-71000-6
http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/database+management+&+information+retrieval?SGWID=4-153-22-173730514-0
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ABSTRACT
We are not just building the Web any more: we are on it. The latest set
of applications have transformed the Web from a mere document collection
into a social space: the new services developed under the banner of Web
2.0 cater to our needs of connecting through the medium and allow us to
explicitly describe, maintain and develop our online self. At the same
time, documents and other forms of content are not only up- and
downloaded any more, but actively exchanged, filtered, organized and
discussed in groups of all sizes. While the pace of change is dizzying,
investigating this complex social-technological system is paramount to
our ability of designing intelligent information systems that can guide
us through the new online universe.
*Social Networks and the Semantic Web* combines the concepts and the
methods of two fields of investigation, which together have the power to
aid in the analysis of the social Web and the design of a new class of
applications that combine human intelligence with machine processing.
Social Network Analysis and the emerging Semantic Web are also the
fields that stand to gain most from the new Web in achieving their full
potential. On the one hand, the social Web delivers social network data
at an extraordinary scale, with a dynamics and precision that has been
outside of reach for more traditional methods of observing social
structure and behavior. In realizing this potential, the technology of
the Semantic Web provides the key in aggregating information across
heterogeneous sources. The Semantic Web itself benefits by incorporating
user-generated metadata and other clues left behind by users.
*Social Networks and the Semantic Web* is designed for practitioners and
researchers in industry, as well as graduate-level students in Computer
Science within the Semantic Web field, and Social Science with an
interest in working with electronic data and observing online social
networks. This book also supplies developers of social-semantic
applications with an understanding of the key concepts and methods of
both fields and describes real-world applications incorporating social
and semantic metadata.
Foreword by Frank van Harmelen, author of the Semantic Web Primer
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