The workshop took place in Beijing on April 20, 2008. The 2nd Workshop on Social Web Search and Data Mining will take place this November in Hong Kong.

Here’s a selected list of papers presented at the workshop. A full list is available here. All papers are in PDF. Some of these papers are technical but the abstracts can help non-techies (like the ResourceShelf team) get a handle on social web search research.

+ Bootstrapping the Semantic Web of Social Online Communities

+ Semantic Service Composition based on Social Network

+ Data Mediation and Interoperation in Social Web: Modeling, Crawling and Integrating Social Tagging Data

+ Trend Prediction in Social Bookmark Service Using Time Series of Bookmarks

+ On the Effect of Group Structures on Ranking Strategies in Folksonomies

+ Identification of Personal Name Aliases on the Web

+ Beyond Web-log: Transform Blog into Personal Expertise and Social Network via myFOAF Support

+ Searching and Visualizing Domain Knowledge Using Ontology

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