Decentralised social network management

Abstract

Social networking sites have gained much popularity in the recent years because of the opportunities they give to people to connect to each other in an easy and timely manner, and to exchange and share various kinds of information. However, these sites are based on a centralised paradigm, which limits the mobility of their users, and ultimately, their chances to establish new relationships and benefit from diverse networking services. In this paper, we argue for a decentralised paradigm for social networking, in which users retain control of their profiles, and social networking sites focus on the delivery of innovative and competitive services. In this environment, both the social networking sites and their users will be able to develop to their full potential. This goal can be achieved by using a combination of semantic web technologies and tools, loosening the bind between the social network management and social networking web applications.

Content Privacy Enforcement Models in Decentralized Online Social Networks: State of Play, Solutions, Limitations, and Future Directions

“…Without loss of generality, we can assume that the selected privacy enforcement models allow users to protect the contents they publish by defining the group of users who can access these contents. As a matter of fact, Section 2 shows that a very common solution to express privacy preferences in DOSNs LKH+TGDH [31] Vis-a-Vis [8] LifeSocial.KOM [10] DOSN LKH [28,32] My3 [34] DECENT [43] LKH+OFT [30] DiDuSoNet [36] SocialGate [12] Shi R.H. et al [44] Privacy Policy [38,39] LotusNet [13] ELK [45] Trust [35] Contrail [42] OFT [33] Zeng S. et al [46] ProofBook [40] LKH [29] eXO [47] Safebook [7] DGKD [48] Solid [49] SuperNova [14] Bortoli S. et al [50] LibreSocial [41] BCOSN [51] WebP2P [52] Megaphone [53] SEDOSN [54] ReClaim [55] PSON [56] (and OSNs) is the definition of groups of users. An alternative solution to specify the users who can access a content is the one that expresses privacy preferences through attribute based access control policies.…”

PAD: A semantic social network

“…Despite interesting success stories attributed to well known social networks like Facebook3, they also have some limitations [17]. While it is easy to share data on a single social network, it is much challenging to share it across different social networks, because each network has its own data schema and conceptual space [8].…”

An Autonomous Social Web Privacy Infrastructure with Context-Aware Access Control

“…Decentralization and cross-OSNs management of identities has been studied by various research groups [4], [15], [19]. Bortoli et al [4] propose a web-based application for automatic social network integration, based on globally unique identifiers and semantic web technologies.…”

“…Bortoli et al [4] propose a web-based application for automatic social network integration, based on globally unique identifiers and semantic web technologies. The authors focus on the decentralized and boundary-crossing management of OSN identities.…”