My PhD research focused on using the semantic web to support recommendation-seeking in social networks. Specifically it aimed to: understand how people use word of mouth within their social networks to locate information or explore particular topics; model these processes so they can be replicated in an online environment; build semantic web-based systems that support people in these locating and exploring tasks by making use of their social context.

Keys: semantic web, trust, social networks, recommender systems, known person recommendation, user experience, online tasks, user context, personal context, revyu, hoonoh

Bernstein, A., Karger, D., Heath, T., Feigenbaum, L., Maynard, D., Motta, E. and Thirunarayan, K. (eds.) (2009) The Semantic Web - ISWC 2009. 8th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2009, Chantilly, VA, USA, October 25-29, 2009, 5823, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg

Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2008) Revyu: Linking reviews and ratings into the Web of Data, Journal of Web Semantics, 6, 4, pp. 266-273, Elsevier

d'Aquin, M., Motta, E., Dzbor, M., Gridinoc, L., Heath, T. and Sabou, M. (2008) Collaborative Semantic Authoring, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23, 3, pp. 80-83

Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2008) Ease of Interaction plus Ease of Integration: Combining Web2.0 and the Semantic Web in a Reviewing Site, Journal of Web Semantics, 6, 1

Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2007) Revyu.com: A Reviewing and Rating Site for the Web of Data, 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC+ASWC2007), Busan, Korea

Moeller, K., Heath, T., Handschuh, S. and Domingue, J. (2007) Recipes for Semantic Web Dog Food - The ESWC and ISWC Metadata Projects, 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007+ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea

Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2007) Computing Word-of-Mouth Trust Relationships in Social Networks from Semantic Web and Web2.0 Data Sources, Workshop: Workshop on Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0 at 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2007), Innsbruck, Austria

Heath, T., Domingue, J. and Shabajee, P. (2006) User Interaction and Uptake Challenges to Successfully Deploying Semantic Web Technologies, Workshop: 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop at 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006), Athens, GA, USA

Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2006) Reviews and Ratings on the Semantic Web, Poster at 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006), Athens, GA, USA

Mulholland, P., Gaved, M., Zdrahal, Z., Collins, T. and Heath, T. (2006) Using ICT to support public and private community memories: case studies and lessons learned, Constructing and sharing memory: community informatics, identity and empowerment, Prato 2006, Prato, Italy Proceedings of Constructing and sharing memory: community informatics, identity and empowerment, Prato 2006

Gaved, M., Heath, T. and Eisenstadt, M. (2006) Wikis of Locality: Insights from the Open Guides, 2006 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym2006), Odense, Denmark Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis, eds. Riehle, Dirk, pp. 119-126, ACM Press

Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2006) Personalizing Relevance on the Semantic Web through Trusted Recommendations from a Social Network, Workshop: Semantic Web Personalization at 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2006), Budva, Montenegro

Heath, T., Motta, E. and Petre, M. (2006) Person to Person Trust Factors in Word of Mouth Recommendation, Workshop: Reinventing Trust, Collaboration, and Compliance in Social Systems (Reinvent06) at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2006), Montréal, Canada

Heath, T., Motta, E. and Dzbor, M. (2005) Context as Foundation for a Semantic Desktop, Workshop: 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop at 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005), Galway, Ireland

Heath, T., Motta, E. and Dzbor, M. (2005) Uses of Contextual Information to Support Online Tasks, 1st AKT Doctoral Symposium, Milton Keynes, UK

Heath, T., Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2005) Supporting User Tasks and Context: Challenges for Semantic Web Research, Workshop: UserSWeb: Workshop on End User Aspects of the Semantic Web at European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Crete, Greece