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An Ontology-based reperesentation of the Google+ API

Authors:
Konstantinos Togias
Achilles Kameas

Keywords: Semantics; Social Networking System; Web Mashup; Social Semantic Web

Abstract:
Social Networking Services (SNS) provide users with functionalities for developing their on line social networks, connecting with other users, sharing and consuming content. While most of popular SNS provide open Web 2.0 APIs, they remain disconnected from each other thus fragmenting user's data, social network and content. Semantic social web technologies such as public vocabularies and ontologies can be used for bridging the semantic gap between different SNS. Ontology-based representations of SNS APIs can help developers share knowledge about SNS APIs and can be used for linking APIs with public Social Semantic Web ontologies and vocabularies and for enabling automatic ontology-based service composition. In this paper, we study the API of Google+ SNS and create an ontology based representation of its structural and functional properties. The proposed ontology describes valuable structural and functional details of the API, in a machine processable format useful for understanding the API and appropriate for integrating into ontology based Mashups.

Pages: 15 to 20

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: April 29, 2012

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-61208-196-0

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 29, 2012 to May 4, 2012