Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for Visualizing FOAF
http://www.blogninja.com/vsw-draft-paolillo-wright-foaf.pdf

Paolillo, John C. and Elijah Wright
(We)blog Research on Genre Project, The
2004

Abstract:

The Semantic Web promises to provide new applications for Internet users through the use of RDF metadata attached to various information resources on the web. Yet issomewhat unclear who will provide the metadata, or what will motivate people to provideit, let alone the exact nature of the applications the Semantic Web will ultimately support. What will the ¡°killer app¡± of the Semantic Web be, and what shape will it take?