An Approach to Manage the Web Knowledge

The spread of the Social Web is influencing the evolution of Semantic Web: the way of producing and consulting information changes, as well as the way people relate themselves with the Internet and the services it gives. Users will participate at first hand to the developing of the Web which therefore becomes interactive. This study considers this feature, trying to link the worlds of Social Media and Semantic Web, with the aim of proposing a semantic classification of the information coming from the Web, which do not always follow a well-defined order and organization. Starting from a precise analysis of the information of the Web through an accurate and meticulous study on how these are presented and used, in order to give a sorted and easily usable data structure, this approach wants to define a taxonomy able to represent knowledge through an iterative combined approach, where top-down and bottom-up analyses are applied on the knowledge domain we want to represent