Semantically Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC ( )) is a
Semantic Web technology. SIOC provides methods for interconnecting discussion methods such as
blogs, forums and mailing lists to each other. It consists of the SIOC
ontology, an open-standard machine-readable format for expressing the information contained both explicitly and implicitly in
Internet discussion methods, of SIOC
metadata
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:
* Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...
producers for a number of popular blogging platforms and
content management systems, and of storage and browsing/searching systems for leveraging this SIOC data.
The SIOC vocabulary is based on
RDF and is defined using
RDFS. SIOC documents may use other existing ontologies to enrich the information described. Additional information about the creator of the post can be described using
FOAF
FOAF (an acronym of friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to describe themselves. FOAF allows groups of people to describe soc ...
Vocabulary and the
foaf:maker property. Rich content of the post (e.g., an
HTML representation) can be described using the
AtomOWL or
RSS
RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many di ...
1.0 Content module.
The SIOC project was started in 2004 by
John Breslin and
Uldis Bojars at
DERI,
NUI Galway. In 2007, SIOC became a
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working to ...
Member Submission.
Example
Creating connections between discussion clouds with SIOC
2006-09-07T09:33:30Z
SIOC provides a unified vocabulary for content and interaction description: a semantic layer that can co-exist with existing discussion platforms.
See also
*
DOAP
*
Online Presence Ontology
*
SKOS
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a W3C recommendation designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is part of the ...
*
XML
References
Further reading
* John G. Breslin, Uldis Bojārs, Alexandre Passant, Sergio Fernández,
Stefan Decker
Stefan Decker is a computer scientist, Full Professor for Database and Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University, and managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. He specializes in the Semantic Web. As ...
SIOC: Content Exchange and Semantic Interoperability Between Social Networks W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 15–16 January 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
* Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin, Vassilios Peristeras, Giovanni Tummarello, Stefan Decker
Interlinking the Social Web with Semantics IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 23, Issue 3 (May/June 2008), pp. 29–40.
* John G. Breslin, Andreas Harth, Uldis Bojars, Stefan Decker
Towards Semantically Interlinked Online Communities 2nd European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece, May 29 to June 1, 2005, pp. 500–514. LNCS 3532.
* Andreas Harth, John G. Breslin, Ina O'Murchu, Stefan Decker
Linking Semantically-Enabled Online Community Sites 1st Workshop on FOAF, Social Networking, and the Semantic Web, Galway, Ireland, Proceedings, September 2004.
External links
SIOC ProjectSIOC Ontology SpecificationSIOC ApplicationsSIOC BrowserSIOC W3C Member Submission
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