Integrating Folksonomies with the Semantic Web
ESWC '07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Semantic Enrichment of Folksonomy Tagspaces
ISWC '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on The Semantic Web
Managing Linked Data on the Web: The LinkedMDB Showcase
LA-WEB '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Latin American Web Conference
Representing, Querying and Transforming Social Networks with RDF/SPARQL
ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
SCOVO: Using Statistics on the Web of Data
ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Media Meets Semantic Web --- How the BBC Uses DBpedia and Linked Data to Make Connections
ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Analysis of a Real Online Social Network Using Semantic Web Frameworks
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
DBpedia: a nucleus for a web of open data
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
Ontologies are us: a unified model of social networks and semantics
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
Towards semantically-interlinked online communities
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
Topic classification in social media using metadata from hyperlinked objects
ECIR'11 Proceedings of the 33rd European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Improving categorisation in social media using hyperlinks to structured data sources
ESWC'11 Proceedings of the 8th extended semantic web conference on The semanic web: research and applications - Volume Part II
Leveraging the Linked Data Principles for Electronic Communications
WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
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Since social media sites have existed, a major element of the conversations which take place on them has been links to external websites. Users share videos or photos they have seen, point to products or movies they are interested in, and use external articles as a reference in discussions. As websites publish more structured and machine-readable data, notably in RDF, an increasing number of the links posted to social media sites do not just point to a webpage but are also associated with a structured data source. The integration of such external data can give us an enhanced insight into the conversation, both for analysing communities and for building applications. This approach can be applied to any online social space, but in this paper we present the use-case of enriching bulletin boards. We investigate the hyperlinks posted on a message board over a 10 year period and show how the external structured information related to these links has grown. We use data aggregated from several external sites providing RDF data or APIs to show how enriching forums with external data can provide us with enhanced insight into online conversation. We discuss potential applications of this approach, for message boards and for social media in general.