AnnotationUseCase

Annotation Use Case - Social Semantic Web

Abstract

This document describes a set of use cases, coming from a general area of social semantic web, generated for Annotation W3C Working Group needs.

Social Semantic Web

By bringing in the social into the semantic web, we can look at a semantic web from a sustainist [1] perspective that implies the qualities such as sharing, localism, connectedness and proportionality. Sharability as a design criteria to encourage Collaboration, Open exchange and Commons. Localism encourages Community, Local experiences and Rootedness. Connectedness being about Connectivity, Interdependence and Connections. And Proportionality shifting focus from scale to appropriate scale and human scale.

By bringing in the word social into the semantic web, the human element in an annotation becomes significant and necessary whereby the Connectedness indicates the linked data like relations over the whole Web.

[1] sustainist design guide - Michiel Schwarz and Diana Krabbendam