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The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop ( SDoW2008 ) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference ( ISWC2008 ) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Media. Since its first steps in 2001, many research issues have been tackled by the Semantic Web community such as data formalism for knowledge representation, data querying and scalability, or reasoning and inferencing. More recently, Web 2.0 offered new perspectives regarding information sharing, annotation, and social networking on the Web.
Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008) - Workshop at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference
XFN - XHTML Friends Network
have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a ' rel ' attribute to their tags, e.g.The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project | FOAF project
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do; it is a contribution to the linked information system known as the Web . FOAF defines an open, decentralized technology for connecting social Web sites, and the people they describe. [ more... ] FOAF is part of a shift towards a Web where we can choose the sites and tools we like, without being cut off from friends who made different choices.