Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for Visualizing FOAF  

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?

Paolillo, John C. and Elijah Wright. (We)blog Research on Genre Project, The (2004). Articles>Information Design>Metadata>Social Networking

Folksonomies? How about Metadata Ecologies?

Folksonomies are clearly compelling, supporting a serendipitous form of browsing that can be quite useful. But they don't support searching and other types of browsing nearly as well as tags from controlled vocabularies applied by professionals.

Rosenfeld, Louis. Louis Rosenfeld (2005). Articles>Information Design>Metadata>Social Networking

Social Consequences of Social Tagging

Too many of the paeans to tagging that I’ve read have completely ignored some of the key social and cultural issues associated with public and collaborative labeling of content, opting instead for a level of technology-driven optimism that I see as overly naive.

Lawley, Liz. Corante (2005). Articles>Information Design>Metadata>Social Networking