We present the Flink system for the extraction, aggregation and visualization of online social networks. Flink employs semantic technology for reasoning with personal information extracted from a number of electronic information sources including web pages, emails, publication archives and FOAF profiles. The acquired knowledge is used for the purposes of social network analysis and for generating a webbased presentation of the community. We demonstrate our novel method to social science based on electronic data using the example of the Semantic Web research community.
Flink REF is a system for the extraction, aggregation and visualisation of online social networks.
Flink: Semantic Web Technology for the Extraction and Analysis of Social Networks
Journal of Web Semantics
Computer Science