Online Content’s Popularity Metrics: RDF-Based Normalization

Abstract

Social network websites are mainly constructed around the notion of user identities, as set up on the bases of their profiles, and online generated contents such as texts, videos, photos. Still, while some profiles gain an important position in the network, others do not. Similarly, some online generated contents appear to gain a great deal of attention from the part of users, whereas others are completely ignored. In this context, the notion of profile and online content related popularity has come to the forefront. Additionally, several studies turn out to be focused on the area of popularity associated analysis and prediction. Noteworthy, however, is that the popularity evaluative metrics prove to vary from a social network to another. In this respect, the present work is conceived to deal with such challenges through an advanced proposal whereby a unified presentation of popularity metrics related to each social entity, across several social networks, is put forward. Accordingly, a hierarchical structure of popularity metrics, as enhanced with a particular RDF presentation, is suggested, along with a brief summary of wide range of methods used to analyze such entities related popularities.