Social Web Evolution: Integrating Semantic Applications and Web 2.0 Technologies
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Overview
As semantic technologies prove their value with targeted applications, there are increasing opportunities to consider their usefulness in social contexts for knowledge, learning, and human development.
Social Web Evolution: Integrating Semantic Applications and Web 2.0 Technologies explores the potential of Web 2.0 and its synergies with the Semantic Web and provides state-of-the-art theoretical foundations and technological applications. A reference edition for academicians, practitioners, policy makers, and government officers eager for knowledge on Web 2.0 and social Web, this book emphasizes practical aspects of the integration of semantic applications into social Web technologies.
Editorials
Library Journal
This definitive guide divides an expansive, recently distinguished, and rapidly evolving subject into 19 thematic chapters, dealing with informational facets as diverse as social networking sites, public comment applications, e-commerce, online learning, and information diffusion models. Lytras and Ordoñez de Pablos (coeditors, Knowledge Networks) bring together the scholarship of 44 field professionals, who employ international empirical case studies to support assertions and concepts. Each chapter-long essay is divided by issue heading and closes with a multipage bibliography. A more expansive, scholarly complement to Ann Bell's Exploring Web 2.0.
—Savannah Schroll Guz