Overview
- First book to combine social and technical aspects of community-built databases
- Discusses issues of social networks and Web communities independent of a specific platform or product
- Opens up new research in areas such as Web science, social networks, distributed databases, and collaborative information systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Collaborative Knowledge Collection through Community-Built Databases
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Social Analysis in Community-Built Databases
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Community-Built Databases Storage and Modelling
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Future of Community-Built Databases Research and Development
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Eric Pardede is a lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has authored more than 30 research papers that were published in international journals and conference proceedings. His current research areas are XML databases, community-built databases, and health informatics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community-Built Databases
Book Subtitle: Research and Development
Editors: Eric Pardede
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19047-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-19046-9Published: 21 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43870-7Published: 04 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-19047-6Published: 19 May 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 375
Topics: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Storage and Retrieval, Computers and Society, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction