User-centered Social Network Profiles Integration

Abstract

Large scale online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, have become an important part of our every day life. Users are connected to multiple OSNs in which they maintain their different profiles including a lot of personal and social information. As the number of friends of a given user may grow so rapidly, it becomes impossible to manage all updates from friends' profiles to filter relevant information. We present a FOAF-based profiles aggregation model, which is able to align different user profiles available on OSNs into aggregated profiles within a single triple store. The aggregated profiles are then linked together by friend connection. We illustrate the applicability by the presentation of some applications supposed to provide users some effective help in information searching.