Social Networks and Data Portability using Semantic Web technologies

Abstract

Social network and data portability has recently gained a lot of interest as one of the issues for social media sites on the Web. In this paper, we will show how Semantic Web technologies and especially the FOAF and SIOC vocabularies can be used to model user information and user-generated content in a machine-readable way. Thus, we will see how data and network information can be reused among various services and applications, at almost zero-cost for developers of such tools.