Presented at: 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010)
by Felix Schwagereit, Ansgar Scherp, Steffen Staab
Managing one''s memberships in different online communities more and more becomes a cumbersome task. This is due to the rapidly increasing number of communities in which we participate such as professional networks, sports clubs, and groups with specific interests like hobbies and others. In addition, these communities are scattered and distributed over multiple systems, i.e., different community platforms that each require a distinct user account. They also have different user interfaces and different definitions of communities and groups. In this paper, we present dgFOAF, an approach for distributed group management based on the well known Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) vocabulary. Our dgFOAF approach is independent of the concrete community platforms we find today and needs no central server. Thus it allows for defining communities that span across multiple systems and thus alleviates the community administration task.
Keywords: FOAF, distributed groups, online community
Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2010/paper/social_web/6
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