Semantically Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC ( )) is a

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technology. SIOC provides methods for interconnecting discussion methods such as

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s, forums and mailing lists to each other. It consists of the SIOC

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, an open-standard machine-readable format for expressing the information contained both explicitly and implicitly in

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discussion methods, of SIOC

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producers for a number of popular blogging platforms and

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, and of storage and browsing/searching systems for leveraging this SIOC data. The SIOC vocabulary is based on RDF and is defined using

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. 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 Vocabulary and the foaf:maker property. Rich content of the post (e.g., an

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representation) can be described using the AtomOWL or

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1.0 Content module. The SIOC project was started in 2004 by John Breslin and Uldis Bojars at

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. In 2007, SIOC became a

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Member Submission.

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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.

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SIOC Project

SIOC Ontology Specification

SIOC Applications

SIOC Browser

SIOC W3C Member Submission
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