Social informatics and web evolution

The article deals with the issues of social informatics associated with Web generations. The development of the Web has caused the shifting the focus of the social informatics issues. The development of the Semantic Web can lead to a wider understanding of the data structuring and their transformation into a global data infrastructure. The data extracted from the documents offer the new analytic resources for sociological practice not as the establishment of relationships between disparate data as the qualitative and quantitative data analysis. Combining semantic information with data from social media provides relevant information from the Web. To use the Semantic Web in sociological research requires close interdisciplinary collaboration in the development of appropriate software tools from experts in the field of computer science. Open linked data reveal the way to various services, designed to reduce the complexity of integrating disparate data from distributed sources.