Social network sites are becoming increasingly popular and useful as well as relevant means for serious social research. However, despite their user appeal and wide adoption, the current generation of sites are hard to query and explore, offering limited views of local network neighbourhoods. Moreover these sites are disconnected islands of information due to application and interface differences. We describe SociQL: a query language along with a prototype implementation that enables for the representation, querying and exploration of disparate social networks. Unlike generic web query languages, SociQL is designed to support the examination of sociological questions, incorporating social theory and integration of networks that form a single unified source of information. The thesis discusses the design and rationale for the elements in the language, and reports on our experiences in querying real social network sites with it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1758 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Serrano Suarez, Diego Fernando |
| Contributors | Stroulia, Eleni (Computing Science), Barbosa, Denilson (Computing Science), Sander, Jorg (Computing Science), Kurgan, Lukasz (Electrical and Computer Engineering) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 889183 bytes, application/pdf |
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