Social Software and Semantic Web

Click here for a brief description of the Research Area, taken from the AirLab website.

Projects

Semantic Wikis

• Extending a wiki with semantic templates (ongoing)
• Geographic Ontology for a semantic wiki (ongoing)
• Semantic management of attachments inside a wiki engine
• Semantic wiki extensions with context ontologies
• Binary tag system for the creation of relations in a semantic wiki
• Sandbox ontologies for the semantic wiki IkeWiki
• Design and development of a semantic wiki engine
• Swiki (external link)

Semantic Filesystems

• JOFS, Java Owl File Storage (ongoing)
• Tag based filesystems

Folksonomies and their semantic extensions

• FolksOnt
• Tagonto
• Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy

Semantic Annotations

• Speakin'About - a tool for semantic annotation of text documents

Description Logics

• A fuzzy description logics temporal extension

Useful Resources

• Semantic Web Links, a collection of links for those who want to work with Semantic Web technologies and wikis
• Installing JSPWiki and Tomcat, a guide for JSPWiki developers
• Semantic MediaWiki installation, a guide to install a local version of MediaWiki and its semantic extension
• Persistent Ontologies, a collection of links to material about making ontologies persistent
• Writing a Firefox extension, some hints and pointers to tutorials that will help you create an extension for Firefox
• Bibliography, a huge collection of papers on semantics, wikis and folksonomies on bibsonomy

List of relevant publications

2008

• Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. Exploiting User Gratification for Collaborative Semantic Annotation. Semantic Web User Interaction at CHI 2008: Exploring HCI Challenges.

2007

• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts. Semantic Web Application and Perspectives - Fourth Italian Semantic Web Workshop, 192–201, 2007.

• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. A semantic tool to support navigation in a folksonomy. HT ‘07: Proceedings of the 18th conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 153–154, ACM Press,New York, NY, USA,2007.