Communities have built collections of information in collaborative ways for centuries. Most recently, Wikipedia is the most prominent example of how collaborative efforts can be powerful in building massive data storage. Other global member-built media data storage examples include Flickr and YouTube, and social networking applications such as Friendster, Facebook, and LinkedIn, which share information between members in large unstructured information pools. These platforms are obviously only small first steps, and there are many more opportunities to be unleashed using additional semantics, new interactive media, personalization, enhanced cross-references, and other approaches. There is immense potential for creating and sharing more structured data through the Web. This book, edited by Pardede, addresses the need for a comprehensive research reference on community-built databases. The contributions do not focus on only one database area or only one domain, rather they discuss various technical and social aspects of research in and development of community-built databases. In doing so they provide information on relevant research in Web science, social networks, and collaborative information systems, and they also provide pointers to further research paths. Overall, this book provides comprehensive reading material for a wide-ranging audience of researchers in database systems, Web-based collaboration tools, and Web science. -- from back cover Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Social Web: Web 2.0 Technologies to Enhance Knowledge Communities....Pages 3-20 Community-Contributed Media Collections: Knowledge at Our Fingertips....Pages 21-47 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Social Network Analysis in Community-Built Databases....Pages 51-71 Design Considerations for a Social Network-Based Recommendation System (SNRS)....Pages 73-106 Community Detection in Collaborative Tagging Systems....Pages 107-131 On Using Social Context to Model Information Retrieval and Collaboration in Scientific Research Community....Pages 133-155 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Social Interaction in Databases....Pages 159-182 Motivation Model in Community-Built System....Pages 183-204 Graph Database for Collaborative Communities....Pages 205-234 Semantics in Wiki....Pages 235-257 Front Matter....Pages 259-259 On the Future of Mobile Phones as the Heart of Community-Built Databases....Pages 261-287 Designed for Good: Community Well-Being Oriented Online Databases for Youth....Pages 289-317 Collaborative Environments: Accessibility and Usability for Users with Special Needs....Pages 319-340 Trust in Online Collaborative IS....Pages 341-369 Back Matter....Pages 371-375 Wikipedia, Flickr, You Tube, Facebook, LinkedIn are all examples of large community-built databases, although with quite diverse purposes and collaboration patterns. Their usage and dissemination will further grow introducing e.g. new semantics, personalization, or interactive media. Pardede delivers the first comprehensive research reference on community-built databases. The contributions discuss various technical and social aspects of research in and development in areas like in Web science, social networks, and collaborative information systems. Pardede delivers the first comprehensive research reference on community-built databases. The contributions discuss various technical and social aspects of research in and development in areas like in Web science, social networks, and collaborative information systems.
