Dr. Alexandre Passant 

Alexandre Passant
Adjunct Lecturer &
Unit Leader USS
National University of Ireland, Galway
Lower Dangan
Galway, Ireland
Tel.
Fax +353 91 495 541
alexandre.passant
deri.orghttp://apassant.net
Projects
Dr. Alexandre Passant is working for the following projects(s):
Líon 2Working Groups
Dr. Alexandre Passant is member of the following working group(s):
W3C Social Web Incubator GroupW3C SPARQL Working Group
W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) Interest Group (W3C HCLS)
Books
List of books published since joining DERI Galway:
John Breslin, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker
The Social Semantic Web.
Springer, 2009.
Proceedings
List of proceedings published since joining DERI Galway:
Philipp Kärger, Daniel Olmedilla, Alexandre Passant, Axel Polleres
Proceedings of the ESWC2010 Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT2010).
CEUR-WS.org, 2010.
John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Sergio Fernández
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009).
CEUR-WS.org, 2009.
Michael Hausenblas, Philipp Kärger, Daniel Olmedilla, Alexandre Passant, Axel Polleres
Proceedings of the ESWC2009 Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT2009).
CEUR-WS.org, 2009.
John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Sergio Fernández
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008).
CEUR-WS.org, 2008.
Chapters in Books
List of chapters in books published since joining DERI Galway:
Alexandre Passant, Sheila Kinsella, Uldis Bojars, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Understanding Virtual Communities by Using Semantic Web Technologies.
In Ben K. Daniel (ed.), Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities:Paradigms and Phenomena
IGI Global, 2010.
Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Ajit Jaokar
The Future of Social Websites: Sharing Data and Trusted Applications with Semantics.
In Marvin Zelkowitz (ed.), Advances in Computers, 76
Elsevier, 2009.
Sheila Kinsella, John Breslin, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker
Applications of Semantic Web Methodologies and Techniques to Social Networks and Social Websites.
In Cristina Baroglio, Piero A. Bonatti, Jan Maluszynski, Massimo Marchiori, Axel Polleres, Sebastian Schaffert (ed.), Reasoning Web, Fourth International Summer School 2008
Springer, 2008.
Articles
List of articles published since joining DERI Galway:
Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
A URI is worth a thousand tags: From tagging to Linked Data with MOAT.
In International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 5(3): 72-94, 2009.
Conference Papers
List of conference papers published since joining DERI Galway:
Jodi Schneider, Alexandre Passant, Tudor Groza, John Breslin
Argumentation 3.0: how Semantic Web technologies can improve argumentation modeling in Web 2.0 environments.
In Proceedings of Third International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, IOS Press
2010.
Pablo N. Mendes, Alexandre Passant, Pavan Kapanipathi, Amit P. Sheth
Linked Open Social Signals.
In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)
2010.
Pierre-Antoine Champin, Alexandre Passant
SIOC in action – Representing the dynamics of online communities.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2010), ACM
2010.
Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin
Using Hyperlinks to Enrich Message Board Content with Linked Data.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2010), ACM
Graz, Austria, 2010.
Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Rethinking Microblogging: Open, Distributed, Semantic.
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2010), LNCS, Springer
2010.
Fabrizio Orlandi, Alexandre Passant
Semantic Search on Heterogeneous Wiki Systems.
In WikiSym '10: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration: 1-10, ACM
2010. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Antoine Zimmermann, Jodi Schneider, John Breslin
A semantic framework for modelling quotes in email conversations.
In International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web - Services and Applications (ISWSA 2010) , ACM
2010.
Julie Letierce, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages.
In Web Science Conference (WebSci10)
Raleigh, NC, USA, 2010.
Alexandre Passant
Measuring Semantic Distance on Linking Data and Using it for Resources Recommendations.
In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium ''Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence''
2010.
Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet
Combiner Web 2.0 et Web Sémantique pour réduire les disparités d'expertise au sein de blogs d'entreprise.
In Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC'2010), Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information: 79-84
2010.
Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
SemSLATES: Improving Enterprise 2.0 Information Systems thanks to Semantic Web Technologies.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, IEEE
2009.
Smitashree Choudhury, John Breslin, Alexandre Passant
Enrichment and Ranking of the YouTube Tag Space and Integration with the Linked Data Cloud.
In Proceedings of the th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2009), LNCS, Springer
2009.
Alexandre Passant, Matthias Samwald, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Federating Distributed Social Data to Build an Interlinked Online Information Society.
In Proceedings of the WebSci'09: Society On-Line, 18-20 March 2009, Athens, Greece.
2009. ![]()
Hak Lae Kim, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Simon Scerri, Stefan Decker
Review and Alignmnet of Tag Ontologies for Semantically-Linked Data in Collaborative Tagging Spaces.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Semantic Computing
2008.
Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin
Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF.
In XTech 2008 conference
2008. ![]()
Uldis Bojars, John Breslin, Alexandre Passant
SIOC Browser - Towards a Richer Blog Browsing Experience.
In The 4th BlogTalk Conference
2006.
Demos in Proceedings
List of demo proceedings published since joining DERI Galway:
Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Open, Distributed and Semantic Microblogging with SMOB .
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2010), LNCS, Springer
2010.
Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker
Hey! Ho! Let’s go! Explanatory music recommendations with dbrec.
In Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010), LNCS, Springer
2010.
Laura Dragan, Alexandre Passant, Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh
From Personal Notes to Linked Social Media.
In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium ''Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence'', AAAI
2010.
Alexandre Passant
LODr - A Linking Open Data Tagging System.
In Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008), Vol. 405, CEUR-WS.org
2008. ![]()
Alexandre Passant
Linked Data tagging with LODr.
In Semantic Web Challenge (International Semantic Web Conferrence)
2008. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Tuukka Hastrup, Uldis Bojars, John Breslin
A Distributed Semantic Microblogging Platform.
In Scripting for the Semantic Web Challenge at SFSW 2008
2008. ![]()
Posters in Proceedings
List of poster proceedings published since joining DERI Galway:
Julie Letierce, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Using Twitter During an Academic Conference: the #iswc2009 Use-case.
In 4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2010.
Jodi Schneider, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin
A Content Analysis: How Wikipedia Talk Pages Are Used.
In WebSci2010, Web Science Conference
Raleigh, NC, 2010. ![]()
Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin
Ten Years of Hyperlinks in Online Conversations.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Web Science Conference
Raleigh, NC, USA, 2010.
Workshop Papers
List of workshop papers published since joining DERI Galway:
Benjamin Heitmann, James G. Kim, Alexandre Passant, Conor Hayes, Hong-Gee Kim
An architecture for privacy-enabled user profile portability on the Web of Data.
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2010)
Workshop at 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010), 2010. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Pablo N. Mendes
sparqlPuSH: Proactive notification of data updates in RDF stores using PubSubHubbub .
In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web (SFSW2010) co-located with ESWC2010
2010.
Nuno Lopes, Stefan Bischof, O. Erling, Axel Polleres, Alexandre Passant, D. Berrueta, A. Campos, J. Euzenat, K. Idehen, Stefan Decker, Stéphane Corlosquet, J. Kopecky, J. Saarela, Thomas Krennwallner, D. Palmisano
RDF and XML: Towards a unified query layer.
In Proceedings of the W3C Workshop on RDF Next Steps
Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2010.
Jodi Schneider, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin
Enhancing MediaWiki Talk pages with Semantics for Better Coordination - A Proposal.
In The Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis: Linking Data and People
Workshop at 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Crete, Greece, 2010.
Aidan Hogan, Andreas Harth, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker, Axel Polleres
Weaving the Pedantic Web.
In 3rd International Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010), CEUR
Workshop at 19th International World Wide Web Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 2010. ![]()
Milan Stankovic, Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet
Status Messages for the Right Audience with an Ontology-Based Approach.
In The First International Workshop On Collaborative Social Networks - CollaborateSN 2009
Workshop at Fifth International Conference on Collaborative Computing, 2009.
Alexandre Passant, Paolo Ciccarese, John Breslin, Tim Clark
SWAN/SIOC: Aligning Scientific Discourse Representation and Social Semantics.
In Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse, The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)
2009.
Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
The SIOC Project: Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities.
In Proceedings of the The MALLOW Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems in on-line communities (COIN2009)
Torino, Italy, 2009.
Milan Stankovic, Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet
Directing Status Messages to their Audience in Online Communities.
In Proceedings of The MALLOW Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems in on-line communities (COIN2009)
Torino, Italy, 2009.
Fabrizio Orlandi, Alexandre Passant
Enabling cross-wikis integration by extending the SIOC ontology.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki2009)
Workshop at 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), 2009. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Semantic Search for Enterprise 2.0.
In Proceedings of the Semantic Search 2009 Workshop
Workshop at 18th World Wide Web conference (WWW2009), 2009.
John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Sergio Fernández, Stefan Decker
SIOC: Content Exchange and Semantic Interoperability Between Social Networks.
In W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking
2009. ![]()
John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Manfred Hauswirth, Gearoid Hynes, Danh Le Phuoc, Alexandre Passant, Axel Polleres, Cornelius Rabsch, Vinny Reynolds
Integrating Social Networks and Sensor Networks.
In W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking
2009. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Philipp Kaerger, Michael Hausenblas, Daniel Olmedilla, Axel Polleres, Stefan Decker
Enabling Trust and Privacy on the Social Web.
In W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking
2009. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Yves Raimond
Combining Social Music and Semantic Web for Music-related Recommender Systems.
In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008), Vol. 405, CEUR-WS.org
Workshop at International Semantic Web Conference, 2008.
Alexandre Passant, Tuukka Hastrup, Uldis Bojars, John Breslin
Microblogging: A Semantic Web and Distributed Approach.
In 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW 2008)
Workshop at ESWC 2008, 2008. ![]()
Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Social Networks and Data Portability using Semantic Web technologies.
In 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008)
Workshop at 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008), 2008. ![]()
Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Richard Cyganiak, John Breslin
Weaving SIOC into the Web of Linked Data.
In Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008) workshop
Workshop at WWW 2008 conference, 2008. ![]()
Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Frederick Giasson, John Breslin
A Scripting Architecture to Discover and Query Decentralized RDF Data.
In In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web
Workshop at ESWC, Innsbruck, Austria, 2007.
Technical Reports
List of technical reports published since joining DERI Galway:
Aidan Hogan, Andreas Harth, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker, Axel Polleres
Weaving the Pedantic Web.
DERI, 2009.
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International Events
List of attended events since joining DERI Galway:
Host Semantic Technologies Conference 2009 (SemTech2009), HostAlexandre Passant
Tutorial Presenter and session speaker , San Francisco, CA, USA 6 2010. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Axel Polleres
Co-organisers Alexandre Passant and Axel Polleres , Heraklion, Crete 6 2010. ![]()
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Tutorial presenter , San Jose, CA, USA 6 2009. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Axel Polleres, Michael Hausenblas
Co-organisers Michael Hausenblas and Alexandre Passant and Axel Polleres , Heraklion, Crete 6 2009. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Michael Hausenblas
, San Jose, CA, USA 6 2009. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Uldis Bojars, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
, San Jose, CA, USA 6 2009. ![]()
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Co-chair , Karlsruhe, Germany 11 2008. ![]()
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, Hammamet, Tunisia 1 2010. ![]()
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, Torino, Italy 9 2008. ![]()
Alexandre Passant , Sogndal, Norway 5 2011.
1st International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD 2010) at ISWC2010 , Programme Commitee MemberAlexandre Passant
, Shanghai, China 11 2010. ![]()
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, Shanghai, China 11 2010. ![]()
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, Shanghai, China 10 2010. ![]()
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, Varna, Bulgaria 9 2010. ![]()
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, Graz, Austria 9 2010. ![]()
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, Brisbane, Australia 9 2010. ![]()
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, Ales, France 6 2010. ![]()
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, Heraklion, Crete 6 2010. ![]()
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, Raleigh, NC, USA 4 2010. ![]()
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, Porto, Portugal 3 2010. ![]()
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, Raleigh, NC, USA 3 2010. ![]()
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, Hong Kong 2 2010. ![]()
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, Hammamet, Tunisia 1 2010. ![]()
Alexandre Passant, Sheila Kinsella
, Shanghai, China 12 2009. ![]()
Alexandre Passant , Chantilly, VA, USA 11 2009.
6th International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk 2009), Programme Commitee MemberAlexandre Passant
, Jeju, Korea 8 2009. ![]()
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, Torino, Italy 7 2009. ![]()
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, Heraklion, Crete 6 2009. ![]()
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, Stockholm, Finland 6 2008. ![]()
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, Chantilly, VA, USA 10 1900. ![]()






