[foaf-dev] Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere #7
John Breslin
john.breslin at deri.org
Fri Apr 4 17:23:42 BST 2008
From: http://sioc-project.org/node/328
It's been three months since my last round-up of all things SIOC-ed, so
here is entry number seven in the series:
* Version 1.0 of a SIOC API for Perl has been released on CPAN! The
CPAN page for the SIOC API is here
<http://search.cpan.org/%7Egeewiz/SIOC-v1.0.0/>. A description of
the project itself is available here <http://sioc.socialware.at>.
Thanks to Jochen Lillich <http://www.jochen-lillich.de/>, Thomas
N. Burg <http://randgaenge.net/>, and also to Internet
Privatstiftung Austria (IPA) <http://netidee.at/> for funding this
work.
* A new RDF API module for Drupal <http://drupal.org/node/222788>
has been announced <http://groups.drupal.org/node/8930> that will
include sub-classes / sub-properties of popular terms from SIOC,
DC, etc. <http://groups.drupal.org/node/9311#comment-30373>
(Drupal creator Dries Buytaert has also said that an RDF API will
appear in the core of Drupal 7; see this video
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8487255297768440860>.)
Stephane Corlosquet <http://openspring.net/> has also made
<http://openspring.net/blog/2008/03/06/first-rdf-schema-for-a-semantic-web-enabled-drupal>
an RDF Schema proposal for Drupal
<http://groups.drupal.org/node/9311> (which includes SIOC) and has
received very positive feedback. Some potential RDF use cases for
Drupal <http://groups.drupal.org/node/9010> have also been described.
* Gautier Poupeau <http://www.lespetitescases.net/> has written a
useful guide (en Français) on how to RDF-ise your blog in two
parts: the theory
<http://www.lespetitescases.net/rdfaiser-votre-blog-1-la-theorie>
and the practice
<http://www.lespetitescases.net/rdfaiser-votre-blog-2-la-pratique>.
It uses RDFa and vocabularies including SIOC, SIOC Types, DC
Elements, DC Refinements and XSD.
* SIOC data is now being produced by memoQ
<http://memoq.semanticweb.org/> by Yuki Matsuoka and Hideaki
Takeda <http://www-kasm.nii.ac.jp/%7Etakeda/> of the National
Institute of Informatics, Japan <http://www.nii.ac.jp/>.
* Keith Alexander <http://semwebdev.keithalexander.co.uk/blog/> at
Talis has described <http://blogs.talis.com/n2/archives/17> (and
shown
<http://kwijibo.talis.com/experiments/jsonp/comments.test.html#Post>)
how it is possible to create client-side Semantic Web applications
using their Convert <http://convert.test.talis.com/> service. For
example, on this page
<http://kwijibo.talis.com/experiments/jsonp/comments.test.html>
comments functionality is added to a section identified with a
"sioc:has_reply" property using a short piece of embedded widget code.
* ASP.net developer John Dyer has written a nice post on
DataPortability and its standards
<http://johndyer.name/post/2008/02/Introduction-to-the-state-of-DataPortability-and-its-standards.aspx>,
talking about OpenID, FOAF, SIOC, APML, etc. Daniel Lewis
<http://vanirsystems.com/> has also written a good overview of DP
<http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/02/14/my-view-of-dataportability/>.
More recently, John announced the DataPortability pack for
BlogEngine.NET
<http://johndyer.name/post/2008/02/Data-Portability-Pack-for-BlogEngineNET.aspx>
that produces SIOC, APML and FOAF. BlogEngine.NET
<http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/> founder Mads Kristensen
<http://blog.madskristensen.dk/> has also written about data
portability and making an API to your website
<http://blog.madskristensen.dk/post/Make-an-API-of-your-website.aspx>.
* OpenLink <http://www.openlinksw.com/>'s Personal Data Space
Explorer <http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/> now also exposes SIOC
<http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/kidehen>, FOAF
<http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/kidehen> and other RDF
data. See Kingsley's post on linked data via FOAF and SIOC
<http://kidehen.typepad.com/kingsley_idehens_typepad/2008/01/foaf-ing-linked.html>.
* Uldis Bojars <http://captsolo.net/info/>, Alex Passant
<http://apassant.net/blog/> and I <http://www.johnbreslin.com/>
will present a tutorial entitled "Interlinking Online Communities
and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web
<http://www2008.org/program/program-tutorials-TP3.html>" at the
14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008
<http://www2008.org/>) in Beijing this month.
* I did an interview with SemanticWeb.com
<http://www.semanticweb.com/> called "SIOC-ing the Semantic Web
<http://www.semanticweb.com/insight/article.php/3721111>" in
January, and talked to PCWorld <http://www.pcworld.com/> about
data portability and SIOC
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/141541/data_portability_reasonable_goal_or_impossible_dream.html>.
Uldis <http://captsolo.net/info/> recorded a podcast with Talis
<http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/02/a_chat_with_uldis_bojars.php>
in February with SIOC as one of the main topics. (Eric Miller
<http://zepheira.com/team/eric/> also described in another Talis
podcast
<http://talk.talis.com/archives/2008/03/eric_miller_tal_1.html>
how FOAF and SIOC are useful not only for getting at historical
content, but for providing fine-tuned content-delivery systems
connecting people interested in various aspects of a particular
domain.)
* Alex <http://apassant.net/> has produced a universal SIOC reader
widget
<http://apassant.net/blog/2008/01/30/sioc-reader-universal-widget/>.
The widget can query for SIOC data from any SPARQL endpoint that
provides a JSON output for SELECT queries. (Alex has also released
<http://apassant.net/blog/tag/moat/> the Meaning of a Tag
<http://moat-project.org/> ontology which links with SIOC and SCOT
<http://scot-project.org/>.)
* Phillip Rhodes has been working
<http://www.jroller.com/openqabal/entry/so_what_is_openqabal_and>
on the OpenQabal <http://openqabal.dev.java.net/> "social software
operating system" which integrates a set of applications
(including Roller <http://rollerweblogger.org/> and JavaBB
<http://www.javabb.org/> ) via single sign-on (SSO), a common
look-and-feel, and SIOC.
* Sean Palmer <http://inamidst.com/sbp/> has written an interesting
article entitled "One Semantic Application, One UI?
<http://inamidst.com/whits/2008/omniui>" in which he talks about
Tabulator <http://www.w3.org/2005/ajar/tab> and its interfaces,
including application specific panes for FOAF, SIOC and DOAP.
* Tim Berners-Lee <http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/> talked
about FOAF and SIOC in an interview with Marie Boran from Silicon
Republic
<http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10386>
for the Irish Independent
<http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/the-man-who-wove-the-web-1301437.html>:
/"A project that started back in 2000 called Friend-of-a-Friend
(FOAF) represents relationships between people, as well as basic
contact details. SIOC does this for groups: it extends the FOAF
idea to being able to talk about whole groups of people. Groups
are a very important part of the Web because online communities
are where we form our trust. It is very useful to build tools that
apply to all the online communities so they can all generate this
social trust information. I am excited about SIOC because you can
use that information to determine trust, to let people in. If
someone is in a group that a friend of mine is part of, I can
create another relationship based on that."/
* Uldis, Tuukka Hastrup <http://tuukka.iki.fi/> and Thomas Schandl
<http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/thomas_schandl/> are
updating Uldis' WordPress SIOC Importer
<http://wiki.sioc-project.org/w/SIOC_Import_Plugin>, which allows
you to create blog posts based on SIOC data ported from weblogs,
mailing lists, forums, IRC, etc.
* Chris Bizer <http://www.bizer.de/>, Richard Cyganiak
<http://richard.cyganiak.de/> and Tom Heath
<http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/tom/> have published a very useful
document called "How to Publish Linked Data on the Web
<http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/>"
(mentions vocabularies to use like FOAF, DC, SIOC, DOAP, SKOS, MO,
Rev and CC). See also Leo Sauermann and Richard's "Cool URIs for
the Semantic Web <http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/>".
* In the area of collaborative work environments, SIOC is being used
in the Ecospace <http://www.ip-ecospace.org/> project to export
metadata from both BSCW <http://public.bscw.de/> and BC
<http://www.groupbc.com/>. Here is a BSCW SIOC export service
<http://vmecos01.deri.ie:8081/bscw2sioc/>, and there is also a CWE
version of the SIOC Explorer <http://www.activerdf.org:8043/>
(which includes data from both BSCW and BC).
* Sören Auer <http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eauer/>'s team
have produced Triplify <http://triplify.org/>, which enables
simple mapping of RDB to RDF data in a variety of web
applications. Using Triplify, SIOC and FOAF data can be produced
from Drupal 5 <http://drupal.org/>, WordPress
<http://wordpress.org/>, WackoWiki <http://wackowiki.com/>, and
Open Journal Systems <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/>.
* The new version of BoardTracker <http://www.boardtracker.com/>
will have an API to export data using SIOC.
* The Sindice <http://www.sindice.com/> group will soon release the
SWPop widget for WordPress that allows you to view posts,
comments, topics, etc. made by any blog commenter across the
SIOC-o-sphere (as indexed by Sindice). You can see a preview here
<http://140.203.154.234/swpop/blog/>.
* This is an interesting post
<http://andrewapeterson.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/semantic-standards-are-sustainable-seo-for-you-your-business-website/>
by Andrew A. Peterson <http://andrewapeterson.wordpress.com/> on
how semantic standards like RSS, FOAF and SIOC (SIOD
<http://andrewapeterson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/sioc-should-be-called-siod-discussions-not-communities-right/>!)
can provide sustainable SEO for websites, referencing the Yahoo!
Search announcement regarding support for RDF and microformats
<http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000527.html>.
* Ben O'Steen <http://oxfordrepo.blogspot.com/> describes a Pylons
interface to carry out CRUD
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete>
functionality where items are linked together semantically using SIOC.
* Leigh Dodds <http://www.ldodds.com/> has a fun FOAF (and SIOC)
tale <http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000321.html> about Bee
Node (told using SPARQL)!
* I've presented at WebCamp on DataPortability, web standards, SIOC
and FOAF
<http://www.slideshare.net/Cloud/dataportabilityorg-web-standards-sioc-and-foaf>
and recorded a related video on DataPortability and me
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh-4bRDmTd0>. It pales in
comparison to this one
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eGcsGPgUTw> from Danny Ayers!
Previous SIOC-o-sphere articles:
#6 http://sioc-project.org/node/310
#5 http://sioc-project.org/node/294
#4 http://sioc-project.org/node/272
#3 http://sioc-project.org/node/271
#2 http://sioc-project.org/node/138
#1 http://sioc-project.org/node/79
John.
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Dr. John Breslin
DERI, NUI Galway
http://sw.deri.org/~jbreslin/
john.breslin at deri.org
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