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What is Socio-Semantic Web (S2W)

Chapter 196
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
An innovative approach to semantic Web, based on social and human aspects. This new field of research attempts to integrate SW and cooperative knowledge creation capability typical of communities. S2W actually aims at developing in a cooperative and continuous manner, by community members, maps of the concepts discussed within the community.
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Socio-Semantic Web for Sharing Knowledge
Cristian Peraboni (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) and Laura A. Ripamonti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch196
Abstract
The study of knowledge fascinated humanity since remote times (Wiig, 2000): the first “western” traces of this study dates back to the works of important Greek philosophers (e.g., Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle). On the same vein, Indian and eastern philosophers (e.g., Lao Tzu and Confucius) focused their attention on knowledge as an essential learning process to obtain a fulfilling spiritual and concrete life. From a more practical point of view, we could also observe that humanity has always (un)consciously, but effectively, used knowledge as a mean of survival.
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