An Ontology for Social Networking Sites Interoperability
Konstantinos Tserpes, George Papadakis, Magdalini Kardara, Αθανάσιος Παπαοικονόμου, Emmanuel Sardis, Fotis Aisopos, Theodora A. Varvarigou · 2012
The Social Networking Sites (SNS) comprise a pool from which developers can pump functionality and data. Usable REST APIs are providing access to two valuable business assets: the users' generated content and social graph. The lack of standards and the antagonistic nature of the SNSs have resulted in the use of proprietary API specifications and -in turndata models. Each SNS uses a different method to access and a different way to describe notions which are largely similar, e.g. “friends” or shared “multimedia items”. The conceptual similarity between entities “living” in the SNS, creates a remarkable opportunity: The aggregation of the social functionality and data can provide the basis for a unique platform on top of which third parties can deploy new added value services, seamlessly using the underlying SNSs APIs. This paper presents an attempt to implement this concept by means of building a core ontology for supporting SNS