WWW 2008 / Workshop Summary April 21-25, 2008 · Beijing, China WS10A ­ Workshop on Social Web and Knowledge Management (SWKM2008) Aalborg University Dept. of Computer Science Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300 DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark Peter Dolog Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Institut AIFB D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Markus Krötzsch sebastian.schaffer t @salzburgresearch.at ABSTRACT This pap er provides an overview on the synergies b etween social web and knowledge managemen, topics, program committee memb ers as well as summary of accepted pap ers for the SWKM2008 workshop. Salzburg Research Jakob Haringer Str. 3 A-5020 Salzburg, Austria dolog@cs.aau.dk Sebastian Schaffer t kroetzsch@aifb.unikarlsruhe.de Denny Vrandecic Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Institut AIFB D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany vrandecic@aifb.unikarlsruhe.de Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.4 [Systems and Software]: [Information networks, User profiles and alert services]; H.3.1 [Content Analysis and Indexing]: [Dictionaries, Indexing methods]; H.4.m [Information Systems]: Miscellaneous; H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Group and Organization Interfaces--Computer-supported cooperative work, Organizational design, Web-based interaction ; H.5.4 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Hyp ertext/Hyp erme-dia-- Navigation, User Issues Knowledge management systems focus on knowledge and exp erience sharing. They enhance organization capabilities by externalizing knowledge of its employees and combine them in novel forms. Therefore, there is a common interest in social structures as well as social computing in b oth fields. The social web can b e the common underlying platform for novel and web-based knowledge management systems. It breaks up rigid processes and enables much richer interaction p ossibilities and creativity. In this workshop we bring together p eople from the areas of social web technologies, semantic systems, and knowledge management. The main purp ose of the workshop is to study synergies b etween social computing, social web, semantic systems, and knowledge management and provide a look at the current state of the art in the area. 2. TOPICS Main topics of interest in the areas of Social Semantic Web and Knowledge Management include but are not limited to: · Knowledge management, semantics and social web · Flexible processes for knowledge management on social web · Wikis, blogs and other means for information sharing · Personalization and User Modeling in semantic wikis, blogs, and other Web 2.0 applications · Personalized Search in the social web · Reasoning and Reason Maintanace on the social web · Text and media extraction, clustering and classification and social web · Privacy and security for knowledge management and social web · Theoretical models of communities on social web · Discovering social structures and communities · Evolution and temp oral analysis of online social networks · Integration of heterogeneous social web applications · Applications of social web General Terms Algorithms, Design, Human Factors, Management Keywords Social Web, Knowledge Management, Semantic Web, Web 2.0 1. INTRODUCTION The social web, the most interesting part of the Web 2.0, aims at bringing p eople together and facilitating richer interaction among them. It is characterized by a strong focus on communities where p eople share exp eriences, information and knowledge, meet and discuss, or do business together. The social web challenges will b e studied in this workshop from two p ersp ectives: knowledge management and social web search and mining. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). WWW 2008, April 21­25, 2008, Beijing, China. ACM 978-1-60558-085-2/08/04. 1279 WWW 2008 / Workshop Summary April 21-25, 2008 · Beijing, China p ermissions at the closest neighb or level. The social network then propagates p ermissions, using sp ecific algorithms as outlined in the pap er. Rep orted practical results indicate that the approch could indeed b e promising. Last but not least, [1] presents results of a study on the evolution of hyp erstructures in wikis. Moreover, they discuss how approaches develop ed in the hyp ertext community can b e applied in the context of (semantic) wikis for document and knowledge management. 3. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · PROGRAM COMMITEE Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK Anupriya Ankolekar, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA Francois Bry, LMU Munich, Germany John Davies, BT, Ipswich, UK Norb ert Eisinger, LMU Munich, Germany Hans-J¨rg Happ el, FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany o Tom Heath, Op en University, UK Martin Hepp, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria Nick Kings, BT, Ipswich, UK Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain Peter Axel Nielsen, AAU Aalb org, Denmark Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology (CNR), Italy Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Elena Simp erl, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria Pavel Smrz, BUT Brno, Czech Republic York Sure, SAP Research, CAC Karlsruhe, Germany Hideaki Takeda, Tokyo Research Institute, Japan Marcel Tilly, Europ ean Microsoft Innovation Center, Aachen, Germany Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA 5. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This event is supp orted by the EU pro jects ACTIVE1 and KIWI2 . We would like to thank our program committee memb ers for invaluable work dedicated to the reviews. We also would like to thank authors of submitted pap ers for their contributions which allowed for a very attractive program. 6. REFERENCES [1] Boulain, P., Shadbolt, N., and Gibbins, N. Hyp erstructure maintenance costs in large-scale wikis. In SWKM 2008: Intl. Workshop on Social Web and Know ledge Management @ WWW 2008 (2008). [2] Coppola, P., Lomuscio, R., Mizzaro, S., and Nazzi, E. m-dvara 2.0: Mobile & web 2.0 services integration for cultural heritage. In SWKM 2008: Intl. Workshop on Social Web and Know ledge Management @ WWW 2008 (2008). [3] Hong, D., and Shen, V. Y. Setting access p ermission through transitive relationship in web-based social networks. In SWKM 2008: Intl. Workshop on Social Web and Know ledge Management @ WWW 2008 (2008). [4] Ronzano, F., Marchetti, A., Tesconi, M., and Minutoli, S. Tagp edia: a semantic reference to describ e and search for web resources. In SWKM 2008: Intl. Workshop on Social Web and Know ledge Management @ WWW 2008 (2008). [5] Shakya, A., Takeda, H., and Wuwongse, V. Stylid: Social information sharing with free creation of structured linked data. In SWKM 2008: Intl. Workshop on Social Web and Know ledge Management @ WWW 2008 (2008). [6] Yeung, C. A., Gibbins, N., and Shadbolt, N. A study of user profile generation from folksonomies. In SWKM 2008: Intl. Workshop on Social Web and Know ledge Management @ WWW 2008 (2008). 4. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS SWKM2008 workshop received fifteen submissions out of which we have selected six for presentation and publication in workshop proceedings. The accepted contributions span across various topics such as generation of user profiles from folksonomies, maintenance costs for large hyp erstructures in wikis, access p ermissions set according to transitive relationships in social networks, tagging, link sharing as well as service integration for cultural heritage. [6, 4] focus tagging in social web. The first pap er describ es an analysis of p ersonal data in folksonomies and prop oses a clustering-based algorithm for generating user profiles which reflect multiple user interests accurately [6]. The second pap er describ es a first step towards a reference framework to supp ort semantic characterization of web content [6]. [5, 2] focus on collab orative co-creation of information structures on the social web. StYLiD [5] prop oses a system which supp orts sharing of user defined information structures of various kinds. The system provides semiautomatic supp ort for aligning such structures thus creating a unified view and consolidation of knowledge entered into the system. A prop osal for co-creation of cultural heritage for the mobile web, where individual users contribute and collectively evolve shared resources is describ ed in [2]. Relationships in social networks are exploited by [3]. The pap er studies how transitive relationships in social network can contribute to trust access p ermissions. It exploits a graph based approach and shows that it is sufficient to set 1 2 http://www.active- project.eu/ http://www.kiwi- project.eu/ 1280