TY - GEN
T1 - User profile integration made easy - Model-driven extraction and transformation of social network schemas
AU - Kapsammer, Elisabeth
AU - Kusel, Angelika
AU - Mitsch, Stefan
AU - Pröll, Birgit
AU - Retschitzegger, Werner
AU - Schwinger, Wieland
AU - Schönböck, Johannes
AU - Wimmer, Manuel
AU - Wischenbart, Martin
AU - Lechner, Stephan
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - User profile integration from multiple social networks is indispensable for gaining a comprehensive view on users. Although current social networks provide access to user profile data via dedicated apis, they fail to provide accurate schema information, which aggravates the integration of user profiles, and not least the adaptation of applications in the face of schema evolution. To alleviate these problems, this paper presents, firstly, a semi-automatic approach to extract schema information from instance data. Secondly, transformations of the derived schemas to different technical spaces are utilized, thereby allowing, amongst other benefits, the application of established integration tools and methods. Finally, as a case study, schemas are derived for Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. The resulting schemas are analyzed (i) for completeness and correctness according to the documentation, and (ii) for semantic overlaps and heterogeneities amongst each other, building the basis for future user profile integration. Copyright is held by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).
AB - User profile integration from multiple social networks is indispensable for gaining a comprehensive view on users. Although current social networks provide access to user profile data via dedicated apis, they fail to provide accurate schema information, which aggravates the integration of user profiles, and not least the adaptation of applications in the face of schema evolution. To alleviate these problems, this paper presents, firstly, a semi-automatic approach to extract schema information from instance data. Secondly, transformations of the derived schemas to different technical spaces are utilized, thereby allowing, amongst other benefits, the application of established integration tools and methods. Finally, as a case study, schemas are derived for Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. The resulting schemas are analyzed (i) for completeness and correctness according to the documentation, and (ii) for semantic overlaps and heterogeneities amongst each other, building the basis for future user profile integration. Copyright is held by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).
KW - JSON Schema
KW - Model driven approach
KW - Model transformation
KW - Schema extraction
KW - Social network data integration
KW - Social networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84861065080&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2187980.2188227
DO - 10.1145/2187980.2188227
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84861065080
SN - 9781450312301
T3 - WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion
SP - 939
EP - 948
BT - WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion
T2 - 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web, WWW'12
Y2 - 16 April 2012 through 20 April 2012
ER -