The paper presents statistical findings from an online survey conducted among Semantic Web specialists from science and industry. It provides the reader with a brief overview over current trends and possible future topics from the perspective of research-oriented and application-oriented...

This article investigates several well-known social network applications such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Flickr and identifies semantics and social data portability as the main technical issues that need to be addressed in the future. We argue that these issues can be addressed by building...