Clase, 3. de Marzo

Comunidades online y redes sociales. Web semantica y
Folksonomías (J. Salvachúa, A. Fumero)

This lecture'a first part was about an interesting and very
essential part of the web 2.0 phenomenon.  The social networks
and online communities are what the general public see and relate
to conserning the development of WWW.

The development of web technologies is a very small part of web
2.0 as the more interesting aspect is surely that of the sociological
influences around how we utilize WWW nowadays. Antonio Fumero
introduced us to a wide range of different social networks thus
offering a comprehensive overview of the area as a whole.

An important aspect of the area is also the division of different
social networks by their purpose of use and the notion of how
these uses are slowly merging. I, for example only use Facebook
very actively, but as the developed platform offers many additional
applications and posibilities I may use it for a wider range of needs.

The second part of the lecture was about the semantic web. As
mentioned before, this is a quite familiar subject for me. I even
have my name on a paper from the research about Semantic Web
Services. If interested, you can read on the subject from:
http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/sto/B158.pdf.

I won't go further into the subject. The basic things were covered:
some history, RDF, ontologies etc.