RDF approach on social network analysis

The first W3 Consortium standard to represent metadata with rich amount of information resource of the web is referred as Resource Description Framework (RDF). RDF semantic web approaches are used on different areas of research today such as social network analysis, discovering semantic associations, semantic web engineering and so on. Social networking in modern society is a communication mechanism to generate large amount of user data in real time. Key features and soul of social network can be exploited via Social Network Analysis (SNA). SNA used to extract network of interactions between organizations, peoples and transactions. Recent studies shows semantic web technologies are used to build up applications that can analyze data on various social networking sites. In this paper different types of RDF representations and various social network analysis methods using RDF are studied.