Semantic Social Software: Semantically Enabled Social Software or Socially Enabled Semantic Web?
Sebastian Schaffert (2006): Semantic Social Software: Semantically Enabled Social Software or Socially Enabled Semantic Web?
Semantic Social Software, the combination of social software and Semantic Web technology, has recently been gaining significant attention in the Semantic Web community. This article first discusses the two different perspectives the research community takes on “Semantic Social Software”, namely the “Semantically Enabled Social Software”, meaning social software enhanced by semantics, and the “Socially Enabled Semantic Web”, meaning exploiting social software properties for creating Semantic Web data. It then introduces three example applications of Semantic Social Software (Semantic Wikis, SemanticWeblogs, and ePortfolios) and derives challenges for the SemanticWeb community to address in order to overcome open issues of both, Semantic Social Software and the Semantic Web.
