An Upper Ontology for the Social Web

  • Authors:
  • Jens Grabarske;Dominic Heutelbeck

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Ontologies modeling social graphs often use FOAF as an upper ontology. However, this approach has significant drawbacks. This paper analyzes the requirements for upper social ontologies and illustrates the shortcomings of FOAF and proposed extensions. An alternative approach is presented which is suspected to be sufficient to solve the identified problems.