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XTech 2008: “The Web on the Move” — 6-9 May 2008, Dublin, Ireland
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Alexandre Passant

LaLIC institute (at Université Paris Sorbonne) and Electricité de France R&D

Alexandre Passant received the M.Sc. degree from the Universit Paris Dauphine in 2004. He is currently a PhD student from the LaLIC institute (at Universit Paris Sorbonne) and Electricit de France R&D.

His PhD focuses on enriching Web 2.0 services with Semantic Web technologies in a corporate context, by combining meta-data and domain ontologies in blogs and wikis to offer value-added services to end-users. He is one of the co-author of the SIOC specifications and related documents, and also released some on-line services reusing and displaying Semantic Web data in a user-friendly way, such as foafmap.net.

Sessions

9:00 Friday, 9 May 2008
Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF
Open data, Social networks Goldsmiths 2
Uldis Bojārs (DERI Galway), John Breslin (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway), Alexandre Passant (LaLIC institute (at Université Paris Sorbonne) and Electricité de France R&D)
Data portability has become an important requirement on the Social Web. We demonstrate how data and social network portability can be achieved by building upon existing Semantic Web developments such as SIOC and FOAF. SIOC provides a common format for expressing user-generated content and tools for import/export of this information. FOAF provides a way to link users' social networks. Read more.