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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.1
08391 Abstracts Collection – Social Web Communities

Authors: Harith Alani, Steffen Staab, and Gerd Stumme

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8391, Social Web Communities (2008)

Abstract
From September 21st to September 26th 2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08391 ``Social Web Communities'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.
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Harith Alani, Steffen Staab, and Gerd Stumme. 08391 Abstracts Collection – Social Web Communities. In Social Web Communities. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8391, pp. 1-10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{alani_et_al:DagSemProc.08391.1,
  author =	{Alani, Harith and Staab, Steffen and Stumme, Gerd},
  title =	{{08391 Abstracts Collection – Social Web Communities}},
  booktitle =	{Social Web Communities},
  pages =	{1--10},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{8391},
  editor =	{Harith Alani and Steffen Staab and Gerd Stumme},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-17928},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Social Web Communities, Social Network Analysis, Collaborative Tagging}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.2
08391 Executive Summary – Social Web Communities

Authors: Harith Alani, Steffen Staab, and Gerd Stumme

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8391, Social Web Communities (2008)

Abstract
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.
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Harith Alani, Steffen Staab, and Gerd Stumme. 08391 Executive Summary – Social Web Communities. In Social Web Communities. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8391, pp. 1-5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{alani_et_al:DagSemProc.08391.2,
  author =	{Alani, Harith and Staab, Steffen and Stumme, Gerd},
  title =	{{08391 Executive Summary – Social Web Communities}},
  booktitle =	{Social Web Communities},
  pages =	{1--5},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{8391},
  editor =	{Harith Alani and Steffen Staab and Gerd Stumme},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-17864},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: }
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.3
08391 Group Summary – Mining for Social Serendipity

Authors: Alexandre Passant, Ian Mulvany, Peter Mika, Nicolas Maisonneuve, Alexander Löser, Ciro Cattuto, Christian Bizer, Christian Bauckhage, and Harith Alani

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8391, Social Web Communities (2008)

Abstract
A common social problem at an event in which people do not personally know all of the other participants is the natural tendency for cliques to form and for discussions to mainly happen between people who already know each other. This limits the possibility for people to make interesting new acquaintances and acts as a retarding force in the creation of new links in the social web. Encouraging users to socialize with people they don't know by revealing to them hidden surprising links could help to improve the diversity of interactions at an event. The goal of this paper is to propose a method for detecting extit{"surprising"} relationships between people attending an event. By extit{"surprising"} relationship we mean those relationships that are not known a-priori, and that imply shared information not directly related with the local context of the event (location, interests, contacts) at which the meeting takes place. To demonstrate and test our concept we used the Flickr community. We focused on a community of users associated with a social event (a computer science conference) and represented in Flickr by means of a photo pool devoted to the event. We use Flickr metadata (tags) to mine for user similarity not related to the context of the event, as represented in the corresponding Flickr group. For example, we look for two group members who have been in the same highly specific place (identified by means of geo-tagged photos), but are not friends of each other and share no other common interests or, social neighborhood.
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Alexandre Passant, Ian Mulvany, Peter Mika, Nicolas Maisonneuve, Alexander Löser, Ciro Cattuto, Christian Bizer, Christian Bauckhage, and Harith Alani. 08391 Group Summary – Mining for Social Serendipity. In Social Web Communities. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8391, pp. 1-11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{passant_et_al:DagSemProc.08391.3,
  author =	{Passant, Alexandre and Mulvany, Ian and Mika, Peter and Maisonneuve, Nicolas and L\"{o}ser, Alexander and Cattuto, Ciro and Bizer, Christian and Bauckhage, Christian and Alani, Harith},
  title =	{{08391 Group Summary – Mining for Social Serendipity}},
  booktitle =	{Social Web Communities},
  pages =	{1--11},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{8391},
  editor =	{Harith Alani and Steffen Staab and Gerd Stumme},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-17910},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.08391.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Serendipity, online activity, context, ubiquitous computing}
}
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