Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC ( )) is a
Semantic Web technology. SIOC provides methods for interconnecting discussion methods such as
blog
A blog (a 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 chronological order ...
s, forums and mailing lists to each other. It consists of the SIOC
ontology
In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality.
Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exis ...
, 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, pub ...
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
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 JavaScri ...
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
Uldis is a Latvian male given name that is a variant of the German name Ulrich, which means "powerful heritage". The name may refer to:
* Uldis Augulis (born 1972), Latvian politician
* Uldis Bērziņš (1944–2021), Latvian writer
* Uldis Bri ...
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. 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
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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