THE METAL 2.0 RESEARCH PROJECT

The Metal 2.0 Research Project

The Metal 2.0 Research Project

1. Introduction

The Web is increasingly becoming a social place: there has been a shift from just existing on the Web to participating on the Web. Community applications such as collaborative wikis, blogging, photo and bookmark sharing, and online metal mechanic sector company have become very popular recently, both in personal/social and professional/organisational domains . Most of these collaborative applications provide common features such as content creation and sharing (images, user profiles, bookmarks, articles, etc.), provisions for discussions related to the content (comments, talk pages) and user-to-user connections (circle of friends, private messaging, etc.) and networks of users are also forming through content items of common interest (in what has been termed “object-centred sociality” ).( Prud'hommeaux, 2007)

Moreover, applications are going beyond just data to provide categorising and interlinking for better search and retrieval. As examples of this, there has been huge growth in taxonomy and folksonomy usage on sites like the Wikipedia, del.icio.us, CiteULike and Flickr and within some application areas interconnections between people as well as content have been formed through metal mechanic sector company, trackbacks, blogrolls and interwiki links. However, these applications are hitting boundaries in terms of information integration. For example, many people have multiple user accounts through which they will create new or replicated content across sites, and there is little in terms of connections between these user accounts and the associated content. ( Prud'hommeaux, 2007)

Why one would choose the Semantic Web for enhancing their Web 2.0 experience? The Semantic Web offers a generic infrastructure for interchange, integration and creative reuse of structured data, which can help to cross some of the boundaries that Web 2.0 is facing. Current Web 2.0 sites offer poor query possibilities apart from searching by keywords or tags. Microformats allow embedding of structured information into web pages but lack a generic data representation (other than embedding in HTML) and are limited in representing connections between different types of objects. Adding semantics to Web 2.0 sites aims to tackle some of these issues by creating a web of linked, “mashable” data: facilitating better (i.e. more precise) querying when compared with keyword matching, providing more reuse possibilities and creating richer links between content items. Existing efforts to represent structured data on Web 2.0, on the other hand, offer a large amount of data that we can use. By exploiting each other's achievements the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 together have a better opportunity to realise the full potential of the web . ( Prud'hommeaux, 2007)

In this paper, we will describe how a combination of the SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) ontology and other metal projects that aim to add semantic information to the current Web can be used to bring various metal mechanic sector company together and take them beyond some of their current limitations towards the vision of a “Social Semantic Web” (see Fig. 1). Through the use of Semantic Web data, searchable and interpretable content is retrieved from existing Web ...