An architecture of a distributed semantic social network

摘要: Online social networking has become one of the most popular services on Web. However, current networks are like walled gardens in which users do not have full control over their data, bound to specific usage terms network operator and suffer from a lock-in effect due lack interoperability standards compliance between networks. In this paper we propose an architecture for open, distributed network, is built solely Semantic Web emerging best practices. Our combines vocabularies protocols such as WebID, FOAF, Pingback PubSubHubbub into coherent semantic capable provide all crucial functionalities known centralized We present our reference implementation, utilizes OntoWiki application framework take basis extensive evaluation. results show that feasible, while it also avoids limitations solutions.