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Flink: Semantic Web technology for the extraction and analysis of social networks

. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 3 (2-3): 211--223 (October 2005)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2005.05.006

Abstract

We present the Flink system for the extraction, aggregation and visualization of online social networks. Flink employs semantic technology for reasoning with personal information extracted from a number of electronic information sources including web pages, emails, publication archives and FOAF profiles. The acquired knowledge is used for the purposes of social network analysis and for generating a web-based presentation of the community. We demonstrate our novel method to social science based on electronic data using the example of the Semantic Web research community.

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