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08391 Executive Summary – Social Web Communities Alani, Harith Staab, Steffen Stumme, Gerd Blogs, Wikis, and Social Bookmark Tools have rapidly emerged on the Web. The reasons for their immediate success are that people are happy to share information, and that these tools provide an infrastructure for doing so without requiring any specific skills. At the moment, there exists no foundational research for these systems, and they provide only very simple structures for organising knowledge. Individual users create their own structures, but these can currently not be exploited for knowledge sharing. The objective of the seminar was to provide theoretical foundations for upcoming Web 2.0 applications and to investigate further applications that go beyond bookmark- and file-sharing. The main research question can be summarized as follows: How will current and emerging resource sharing systems support users to leverage more knowledge and power from the information they share on Web 2.0 applications? Research areas like Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Social Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Library and Information Sciences, and Hypermedia Systems have been working for a while on these questions. In the workshop, researchers from these areas came together to assess the state of the art and to set up a road map describing the next steps towards the next generation of social software. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Harith Alani and Steffen Staab and Gerd Stumme 2008 Is Part Of Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8391, Social Web Communities (2008) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.2 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-17864 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.2 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode