Directing status messages to their audience in online communities

Authors:
Milan Stankovic;Alexandre Passant;Philippe Laublet
Affiliations:
LaLIC, Université Paris–Sorbonne, Paris, France and Hypios, Paris, France;Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland;LaLIC, Université Paris–Sorbonne, Paris, France
Venue:
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Year:
2009

Citing 2
Cited 2

Querying distributed RDF data sources with SPARQL

ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
Towards semantically-interlinked online communities

ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications

The SIOC project: semantically-interlinked online communities, from humans to machines

COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
PPO & PPM 2.0: extending the privacy preference framework to provide finer-grained access control for the web of data

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Social interactions have become an important element of today's Web through sites like Social Networks and other online communities. In this paper we focus on a particular aspect of the "Social Web" - the exchange of status messages (short text messages usually broadcasted to a large audience). We investigate the nature of the status message sharing phenomenon and the issues that surround it by the means of a qualitative user study. The results suggest the need to introduce the notion of audience of a status message in the broadcasting in order to prevent the issues of "Gap of Understanding", "Lack of Significance" and "Privacy". In the second part of the paper we present the requirements for a system that would overcome those issues, and seek the concrete solutions in the emerging "Semantic Web" technologies. We present a way how "Semantic Web" ontologies and rules could be used to address the problem of directing status messages to their intended audience. Particularly we show how semantic descriptions of status messages and their intended audiences can be beneficially coupled with the existing distributed data about users to direct status messages to their intended recipients.