social_semantic_desktop

Social semantic desktop

A vision for the computer desktop as an environment on which the user can easily create, share, and deploy both data and metadata. Decker and Frank (2004b) speculate that

> Several new technology thrusts have now emerged which could dramatically impact how people interact and collaborate: The Semantic Web, P2P Computing, and Online Social Networking. (Decker & Frank, 2004b, intro. sect)

In Decker and Frank's vision these "technology thrusts" will co-evolve into what they call "the Social Semantic Desktop," which, they envisage, will enable users to collaborate directly, and share information more efficiently. Decker and Frank argue: > Traditional semantics, knowledge representation, and reasoning research is now interacting with other research search areas, which ... together may have [a significant] impact on the original Web.

They go on to suggest that Social Software [enables the] social connections between different people to be [mapped] into the [envisaged] technical infrastructure. By way of example they suggest that > Online Social Networking makes the relationship between individuals explicit and allows [the discovery of] previously unknown relationships. The most recent Social Networking Sites

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References

Decker, S., & Frank, M. (2004a). //The networked semantic desktop//. Paper presented at the Semantic Workshop at WWW2004, workshop on Application Design, Development and Implementation Issues, New York, USA.

Decker, S., & Frank, M. (2004b). //The social semantic desktop//. DERI Technical Report.