On Building Semantically Enhanced Location-Based Social Networks.
Cláudio de Souza Baptista, Luciana Cavalcante de Menezes, Maxwell Guimarães de Oliveira, Ana Gabrielle Ramos Falcão, Leandro Balby Marinho · Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics · 2013
Currently, most social content sites enable users to enrich their tags with semantic metadata, such as geographic metadata in the case of Location- Based Social Networks (LBSN). However geographic metadata alone only unveils a very specific facet of a tag, leading to the need for general purpose semantic metadata. This paper introduces DYSCS - Do it Yourself Social Content Sites - a platform that combines Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies for assisting users in creating their own LBSN enriched with semantics. DYSCS improves information organization and retrieval and provides distinct functionalities such as multimodal interface. Because of its ontology driven architecture, DYSCS is highly reusable and interoperable.