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Loose Ontological Coupling and the Social Semantic Web

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Best practices for the publication of Semantic Web data currently place an unacceptably high burden on the end-user, who is supposed to locate and embrace third-party ontological structures prior to publishing any information. In this paper, I argue for a different publication paradigm where end-users are encouraged to publish potentially incomplete or conflicting information according to their own local context, and where heterogeneous data is consolidated a posteriori through bottom-up, decentralized processes. This approach simplifies both the publication and curation processes, while opening the door to pay-as-you-go knowledge integration and human-centered social semantics. However, it also profoundly alters the semantics of the overall resulting system.

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  1. eXascale Infolab, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

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  1. University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Bd de Pérolles 80, 1705, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Elena Mugellini

  2. Technical University of Lodz, ul. Wólczanska 215, 90-924, Lodz, Poland

    Piotr S. Szczepaniak

  3. University of Florence, Via S. Marta, 3, 50139, Firenze, Italy

    Maria Chiara Pettenati

  4. University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Bd de Pérolles 80, 1705, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Maria Sokhn

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Cudré-Mauroux, P. (2011). Loose Ontological Coupling and the Social Semantic Web. In: Mugellini, E., Szczepaniak, P.S., Pettenati, M.C., Sokhn, M. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Web Mastering – 3. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18029-3_2

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