How the Semantic Web is Being Used: An Analysis of FOAF Documents

— Semantic Web researchers have initially focused on the representation, development and use of ontologies but paid less attention to the social and structural relationships involved. The past year has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of published RDF documents using the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) vocabulary, providing a valuable resource for investigating how early Semantic Web adopters use this technology as well as build social networks. We describe an approach to identify,

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Li Ding, Lina Zhou, Timothy W. Finin, Anupam Joshi
• Keywords: Biometrics, HICSS 2005, Semantic Web, Semantic Web Adopters, Semantic Web Researchers, System Sciences