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Leveraging social media and IoT to bootstrap smart environments
(Springer International Publishing, 2014-03-12)
As we move towards an era of Smart Environments, mixed technological
and social solutions must be examined to continue to allow users some control over
their environment. Realisations of Smart Environments such as Smart ...
Understanding online communities by using semantic web technologies
(IGI Global, 2011)
During the last few years, the Web that we used to know as a read-only medium shifted to a read-write Web, often known as Web 2.0 or the Social Web, in which people interact, share and build content collaboratively within ...
Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples
(BioMed Central, 2011-12-21)
'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in 2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term 'Volunteered Geographic Information'. Six years later (2005-2011), OpenStreetMap and Google ...
Do as I tweet, not as I do: comparing physical activity data between fitness tweets and Healthy People 2020
(JMIR Publications, 2015-11-30)
Background: The goal of this research was to compare the self-reported estimates of daily physical-activity data provided to the Healthy People 2020 research team via a telephone survey to the mobile fitness app real-time ...
Online influence and sentiment of fitness tweets: Analysis of two million fitness tweets
(JMIR Publications, 2017)
Objective: The goal of this experimental approach using the fitness Twitter dataset is two-fold: (1) to determine if there is a correlation between the type of activity tweet (either workout or workout+, which contains the ...
Integrating tagging into the web of data: Overview and combination of existing tag ontologies
(Taiwan Academic Network, 2011-07)
As the number of social websites offering tagging facilities increases, tagging has become not only a common basis for user participation, but also an important aspect of social content. Tagging is primarily based on the ...
Architecture for gathering and integrating collaborative information for decision support in emergency situations
(Inderscience, 2018-01-16)
The involvement of citizens in supporting crisis situations is no longer a new phenomenon. In the past, the lack of data was one of the main barriers faced by public managers in the decision-making process. Today the ...
RDF dataset profiling – a survey of features, methods, vocabularies and applications
(IOS Press, 2018-07-12)
The Web of Data, and in particular Linked Data, has seen tremendous growth over the past years. However, reuse and take-up of these rich data sources is often limited and focused on a few well-known and established RDF ...
Challenges for semantically driven collaborative spaces
(Springer, 2016)
Linked Data initiatives have fostered the publication of more
than one thousand of datasets in the Linking Open Data (LOD) cloud
from a large variety of domains, e.g., Life Sciences, Media, and Government.
Albeit large ...
The KEYSTONE IC1302 COST Action
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)
As more and more data becomes available on the Web, as
its complexity increases and as the Web’s user base shifts towards a
more general non-technical population, keyword searching is becoming
a valuable alternative to ...