Semantic-based recommender Facebook application

Question

As a project of this semester my friend and I are thinking to make a semantic-based recommender Facebook application. For example, if I wanted to go "a trip to Europe", this application is intended to do the following: go search in my friends list and gives me back all photos albums having the name "Italy Travel" or even only containing a comment about "Eiffel Tower", my friends statuses related to anything in Europe, notes of my friends, links they have liked in other websites and other activities that show up in their news feed. And same goes if I want to watch a movie, read a book or study a subject...etc.

And my question is:

1. Is such thing possible to be achieved within 3 months? knowing that we have only the very basis about Facebook API and semantic related subjects.

2. If it is, what Ontology can we rely on? And what other concepts should we have as a starting block?

Answer 1

In 3 Months Most probably yes (depends upon how much you already know about Facebook API).

Things you should know before embarking on journey to develop this (Some i think are significant enough..)

• Either you can go about developing whole Interaction Code between your server and Graph API yourself.

• Or use some SDK that are already out there.(Some are mentioned in Facebook docs) Like Facebook C# SDK for C#.

• Understanding of FQL and Graph API (Make some small project first to try and test things like getting user friend list).

• Basic understanding of HTTP GET and POST requests and how to construct them in language of your choice.

• Parsing JSON in your language.

• Get a print out of documentation of selected topics for offline reference (I did that...)