Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC ( )) is a
Semantic Web technology. SIOC provides methods for interconnecting discussion methods such as
blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in Reverse ...
s, forums and mailing lists to each other. It consists of the SIOC
ontology
In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophy, philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, Becoming (philosophy), becoming, and reality.
Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into Category ...
, an open-standard machine readable format for expressing the information contained both explicitly and implicitly in
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, p ...
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
A content management system (CMS) is computer software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content (content management).''Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy''. Ann Rockley, Pamela Kostur, Steve Manning. New ...
, and of storage and browsing/searching systems for leveraging this SIOC data.
The SIOC vocabulary is based on
RDF and is defined using
RDFS
RDF Schema (Resource Description Framework Schema, variously abbreviated as RDFS, , RDF-S, or RDF/S) is a set of classes with certain properties using the RDF extensible knowledge representation data model, providing basic elements for the descr ...
. 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 s ...
Vocabulary and the
foaf:maker property. Rich content of the post (e.g., an
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaS ...
representation) can be described using the
AtomOWL or
RSS 1.0 Content module.
The SIOC project was started in 2004 by
John Breslin
John Breslin ( ga, Seán Ó Breisleáin; born 1973 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish engineer and full professor at the University of Galway. He is co-founder of the Irish websites boards.ie and adverts.ie. He co-authored the Irish bestselling b ...
and
Uldis Bojars at
DERI
Deri may refer to :
People
* Aryeh Deri (born 1959), an Israeli politician
* Frances Deri (1880–1971), an Austrian psychoanalyst
* Miksa Déri (1854–1938), a Hungarian electrical engineer
* Shlomo Deri (fl. 2000s), an Israeli politician
* ...
,
NUI Galway
The University of Galway ( ga, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) is a public research university located in the city of Galway, Ireland. A tertiary education and research institution, the university was awarded the full five QS stars for excellence in 201 ...
. In 2007, SIOC became a
W3C 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
DOAP (Description of a Project) is an RDF Schema and XML vocabulary to describe software projects, in particular free and open source software.
It was created and initially developed by Edd Dumbill to convey semantic information associated with ...
*
Online Presence Ontology
The concept of the Social Semantic Web subsumes developments in which social interactions on the Web lead to the creation of explicit and semantically rich knowledge representations. The Social Semantic Web can be seen as a Web of collective knowl ...
*
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 th ...
*
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...
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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