John G. Breslin Knihy

The Social Web, encompassing platforms like MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress, has drawn millions of users and significant investment. As these social websites evolve around connections between people and their interests, they face challenges in information integration, dissemination, reuse, portability, searchability, and automation. The Semantic Web offers a promising solution for interlinking and managing diverse data related to individuals and objects from the Social Web, leading to various strategies aimed at overcoming these challenges. After providing an overview of both the Social and Semantic Webs, Breslin et al. analyze popular social media and networking applications, highlighting their strengths and limitations. They explore how Semantic Web technology can enhance these applications by adding semantics to address current shortcomings. The authors present a dual approach to connect disparate social websites using semantic technologies and to enrich semantic applications with user-generated content. They conclude by discussing how applying Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web is paving the way for the "Social Semantic Web" or "Web 3.0," characterized by interconnected, semantically-rich content and knowledge. This work is geared towards computer science professionals, researchers, and graduates, as well as practitioners and developers focused on enhancing automation in blogs, social networks, and wikis.

The follow-up to the phenomenal 2020 bestseller Old Ireland in Colour (ISBN 9781785373701), winner of Best Irish-Published Book of the Year, An Post Irish Book Awards, 2020.0In Old Ireland in Colour 2, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley have delved even deeper into Ireland?s historical archives to uncover captivating photographic gems to bring to life using their unique blend of cutting-edge technology, historical research and expert colourisation.0Old Ireland in Colour 2 celebrates more of the rich history of Ireland and the Irish from all walks of life, and sees all thirty-two counties represented. With over 150 superb images, once again accompanied by insightful captions, the book is the perfect encapsulation of life in Ireland throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-AnneBuckley are back with the third installment of their record-breakingOld Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour booksare beloved by Irish readers at home and abroad, and in this, thethird book of the series, the authors have uncovered yet morephotographic gems and breathed new life into them in gloriouscolour. All of Irish life is here - from evictions in Connemara to themost elegant drawing rooms in Dublin. Famous faces from politicsand the arts appear alongside humble labourers and farmers andimpish children from all kinds of backgrounds light up this book' sglorious pages.With endless surprising details to pore over in every picture, andcaptivating and illuminating text, Old Ireland in Colour 3 is a winningaddition to this spectacular series of bestselling books