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John Breslin
Unit Leader USS &
Lecturer
National University of Ireland, Galway
Lower Dangan
Galway, Ireland

Tel. +353 91 492622
Fax +353 91 494511
john.breslinatderi.org
http://www.johnbreslin.org/

Units

Dr. John Breslin is member of the following unit(s):

Social Software Unit (USS)

Projects

Dr. John Breslin is working for the following projects(s):

Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence
Enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment
Líon 2

Working Groups

Dr. John Breslin is member of the following working group(s):

W3C Social Web Incubator Group

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:

Thanos Vasilakos, Min Chen, John Breslin, Lei Shu, Ming Li
The 2010 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks (UBSN 2010).
ICST, 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.

Malgorzata Mochol, Anna V. Zhdanova, Lyndon Nixon, John Breslin, Axel Polleres
Proceedings of the 3rd Expert Finder Workshop on Personal Identification and Collaborations: Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME 2008).
CEUR-WS.org, 2008.

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:

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, Andreas Harth, Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Conor Hayes, John Breslin
Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects.
In Thomas Friemel (ed.), Why Context Matters: Applications of Social Network Analysis
VS Verlag, 2008.

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.

Hee Chul Choi, Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Slawomir Grzonkowski, Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Brian Davis, John Breslin
Trust Models for Community-Aware Identity Management.
In Ravi Kumar Jain B (ed.), Trust Management in Virtual Environment
icfai, 2008.

Ina O'Murchu, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Online Social and Business Networking Communities.
In Swapna Gopalan, Nasreen Taher (ed.), Viral Marketing Concepts and Cases
Icfai Books, 2008.

Ina O'Murchu, Anna V. Zhdanova, John Breslin
Semantic Community Portals.
In Arthur Tatnall (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Portal Technology and Applications
Idea Group Publishing, 2007.


Articles

List of articles published since joining DERI Galway:

Slawomir Grzonkowski, Adam Gzella, Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, John Breslin, Tomasz Woroniecki, Jaroslaw Dobrzanski
Sharing information across community portals with FOAFRealm.
In International Journal of Web Based Communities, 5(3): 351-370, 2009.

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.

Hak Lae Kim, Jae Hwa Choi, John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Hong Gee Kim
Personal Knowledge Management for Knowledge Workers using Social Semantic Technologies.
In International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2(4), 2008.

Elizabeth Lawlor, John Breslin, Laoise Renwick, Sharon Foley, Una Mulkerrin, Anthony Kinsella, Niall Turner, Eadbhard O'Callaghan
Mental Health Literacy among Internet Users.
In Journal on Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2008.

Uldis Bojars, John Breslin, Vassilios Peristeras, Giovanni Tummarello, Stefan Decker
Interlinking the Social Web with Semantics.
In IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(3): 29-40, 2008. Get the document.

Uldis Bojars, John Breslin, Aidan Finn
Using the Semantic Web for Linking and Reusing Data Across Web 2.0 Communities.
In Special Issue on the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 (Forthcoming), The Journal of Web Semantics, 2008.

John Breslin, Stefan Decker
The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics.
In IEEE Internet Computing, 11: 86-90, 2007.

John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Andreas Harth, Uldis Bojars
SIOC: An Approach to Connect Web-Based Communities.
In The International Journal of Web-Based Communities, 2(2), 2006.

Uldis Bojars, John Breslin, Andreas Harth, Stefan Decker
Towards Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities.
In The UPGRADE European Journal for the Informatics Professional, 6(6), 2005.

Marco Neumann, Ina O'Murchu, John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Deirdre Hogan, Ciaran MacDonaill
Semantic Social Network Portal for Enterprise Online Communities.
In The Journal of European Industrial Training (Special Edition), 29(6), 2005.


Conference Papers

List of conference papers published since joining DERI Galway:

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.

Smitashree Choudhury, John Breslin, Alexandre Passant
Enrichment and Ranking of the YouTube Tag Space and Integration with the Linked Data Cloud.
In Proceedings of 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)
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. Get the document.

Smitashree Choudhury, John Breslin
Using a Lightweight Multimedia Content Model for Semantic Annotation.
In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunication (IT&T 2008), Galway, Ireland
2008.

Hak Lae Kim, Simon Scerri, John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Hong Gee Kim
The State of the Art in Tag Ontologies: A Semantic Model for Tagging and Folksonomies.
In Proceedings of the Dublin Core Conference 2008
2008.

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.

Sheila Kinsella, Uldis Bojars, Andreas Harth, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
An Interactive Map of Semantic Web Ontology Usage.
In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV08), IEEE Computer Society
London, UK, 2008. Get the document.

Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin
Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF.
In XTech 2008 conference
2008. Get the document.

Hak Lae Kim, John Breslin, Sungkwon Yang, Honggee Kim
int.ere.st: Building a Tag Sharing Service with the SCOT Ontology.
In AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing (Forthcoming)
Stanford University, CA, USA, 2008.

Hak Lae Kim, Sungkwon Yang, John Breslin, Honggee Kim
Simple Algorithms for the SCOT Exporters using Tag Frequency and Cooccurrence.
In The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Silicon Valley, CA, USA, 2007.

Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Conor Hayes, John Breslin
Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects.
In 4th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2007)
Zurich, Switzerland, 2007.

Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, John Breslin
Network Analysis of Semantic Connections in Heterogeneous Social Spaces.
In Proceedings of the UK Social Network Conference
London, UK, 2007.

Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Uldis Bojars, Harold Boley, John Breslin, Malgorzata Mochol, Lyndon J.B. Nixon, Axel Polleres, Anna V. Zhdanova
Combining RDF vocabularies for expert finding.
In Proceedings of the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2007)
Innsbruck, Austria, 2007. Get the document.

John Breslin, Ron Kass, Uldis Bojars
The Boardscape: Creating a Super Social Network of Message Boards.
In The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
2007. Get the document.

John Breslin, Slawomir Grzonkowski, Adam Gzella, Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Tomasz Woroniecki
Sharing information across community portals with FOAFRealm.
In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2007: 126-132, IADIS Press
Salamanca, Spain, 2007. Get the document.

Uldis Bojars, John Breslin, Alexandre Passant
SIOC Browser - Towards a Richer Blog Browsing Experience.
In The 4th BlogTalk Conference
2006.

Eyal Oren, Max Völkel, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Semantic Wikis for Personal Knowledge Management.
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Krakow, Poland, 2006. Get the document.

Knud Möller, Uldis Bojars, John Breslin
Using Semantics to Enhance the Blogging Experience.
In Proceedings of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, Springer
Budva, Montenegro, 2006.

Brahmananda Sapkota, Lars Ludwig, Xuan Zhou, John Breslin
SiFo-Peers: A Social FOAF Based Peer-to-Peer Network.
In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Information Management Association Conference (IIMA 2005)
Dublin, Ireland, 2005.

Andreas Harth, Hannes Gassert, Ina O'Murchu, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
WikiOnt: An Ontology for Describing and Exchanging Wikipedia Articles.
In Proceedings of the 1st International Wikimedia Conference
Frankfurt a. M., Germany, 2005.

Knud Möller, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
semiBlog - Semantic Publishing of Desktop Data.
In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2005)
Karlstad, Sweden, 2005.

John Breslin, Andreas Harth, Uldis Bojars, Stefan Decker
Towards Semantically Interlinked Online Communities.
In Proceedings of the 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2005)
Heraklion, Greece, 2005.

John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Andreas Harth
An Approach to Connect Web-Based Communities.
In Proceedings of the 2nd IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities (WBC 2005): 272–275
Carvoeiro, Portugal, 2005.


Demos in Proceedings

List of demo proceedings published since joining DERI Galway:

Alexandre Passant, Tuukka Hastrup, Uldis Bojars, John Breslin
A Distributed Semantic Microblogging Platform.
In Scripting for the Semantic Web Challenge at SFSW 2008
2008. Get the document.


Posters in Proceedings

List of poster proceedings published since joining DERI Galway:

Eyal Oren, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
How Semantics Make Better Wikis.
In Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW2006) - Special interest tracks and posters
2006. Get the document.

Marco Neumann, Ciaran MacDonaill, John Breslin, Ina O'Murchu, Stefan Decker, Eamonn McQuade
Sneachta and the PUII - The Semantic Social Network Portal.
In Poster Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004)
Hiroshima, Japan, 2004.


Workshop Papers

List of workshop papers published since joining DERI Galway:

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.

Smitashree Choudhury, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
A Lightweight Web Video Model with Content and Context Descriptions for Integration with Linked Data.
In Proceedings of the Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop (SAAKM 2009)
Workshop at 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2009), Redondo Beach, California, USA, 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. Get the document.

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. Get the document.

Sheila Kinsella, Adriana Budura, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Sebastian Michel, John Breslin, Karl Aberer
From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and Back – How did your Grandma Use to Tag?.
In Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'08), ACM
Workshop at 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), 2008. Get the document.

Christoph Lange, Uldis Bojars, Tudor Groza, John Breslin, Siegfried Handschuh
Expressing Argumentative Discussions in Social Media Sites.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008)
Workshop at ISWC2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, 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. Get the document.

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. Get the document.

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. Get the document.

Hak Lae Kim, Sungkwon Yang, Seung-Jae Song, John Breslin, Honggee Kim
Tag Mediated Society with SCOT Ontology.
In The 5th Semantic Web Challenge
Workshop at The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), 2007.

Uldis Bojars, John Breslin
From Online Community Data to RDF.
In W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases
2007. Get the document.

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.

John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Harold Boley, Malgorzata Mochol, Lyndon J.B. Nixon, Axel Polleres, Anna V. Zhdanova
Finding Experts Using Internet-Based Discussions in Online Communities and Associated Social Networks.
In Proceedings of the 1st International ExpertFinder Workshop
Workshop at Knowledge Web General Assembly 2007, 2007.

Uldis Bojars, John Breslin
ResumeRDF: Expressing Skill Information on the Semantic Web.
In Proceedings of the 1st International ExpertFinder Workshop
Workshop at Knowledge Web General Assembly 2007, 2007.

Ke Ning, Vassilios Peristeras, Uldis Bojars, John Breslin
A SIOC Enabled Explorer of Shared Workspaces.
In Web2.0/CSCW Workshop at ECSCW 2007
2007. Get the document.

Hee Chul Choi, Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Slawomir Grzonkowski, Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Brian Davis, John Breslin
Trust Models for Community Aware Identity Management.
In Proceedings of the Identity, Reference and Web Workshop
Workshop at WWW2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006. Get the document.

Aidan Hogan, Andreas Harth, John Breslin
Podcast Pinpointer: A Multimedia Semantic Web Application.
In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies
London, U.K., 2005. Get the document.

Andreas Harth, John Breslin, Ina O'Murchu, Stefan Decker
Linking Semantically Enabled Online Community Sites.
In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web
Galway, Ireland, 2004.

John Breslin
Creating a Social Network from an Existing Bulletin Board Community.
In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the (Semantic) Web (FOAF Galway): 142–145
Galway, Ireland, 2004.

Ina O'Murchu, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Social Networking Portals: An Overview and Evaluation.
In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the (Semantic) Web (FOAF Galway): 226-228
2004. Get the document.

Ina O'Murchu, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Online Social and Business Networking Communities.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Web Communities
Workshop at 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2004 (ECAI 2004), Valencia, Spain, 2004.


Technical Reports

List of technical reports published since joining DERI Galway:

Ina O'Murchu, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Online Social and Business Networking Communities.
DERI, 2004. Get the document. (252.09 kB)

Andreas Harth, John Breslin, Ina O'Murchu, Stefan Decker
Linking Semantically Enabled Online Community Sites.
DERI, 2004. Get the document. (149.26 kB)

Ina O'Murchu, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Community Portal Survey.
DERI, 2004.


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