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FOAF, BIBO, CDWA, and other Semantic Web Vocabs into Omeka Element Sets

Mon, 2009-08-03 14:21 — patrickmj

0 So, I've been working lately on building a plugin for Omeka to report data in it as Linked Open Data.

From Atom to SIOC + Tagging with ARC2 and SimplePie

Tue, 2008-04-08 16:17 — patrickmj

0A 'directory' for UMWBlogs has been cooking conceptually for some time, and has now started cooking into code. The first thing I'm working on is grabbing data from feeds and turning into RDF. I have a test/demo of the first draft of the system here.

A UMWBlogs Directory

Tue, 2008-03-25 14:04 — patrickmj

0Here at University of Mary Washington we've been maintaining an installation of WordPress MultiUser, called UMWBlogs for several months. We now have about 800 registered blogs from students and faculty for their teaching and learning.

Moving toward a university ontology

Wed, 2008-01-16 19:05 — patrickmj

0For a variety of small to medium-sized projects (at least as things are measured here), I've needed to model bits of pieces of the elements of my university, University of Mary Washington.

askDTLT

Wed, 2008-01-09 21:10 — patrickmj

0A bit ago I blogged about the tangled graph of SIOC info, collected up from the blogs of some of my colleagues.

More Fishtank lessons learned

Wed, 2007-05-16 18:27 — patrickmj

0Additional lesson learned on the Fishtank (earlier lessons and description here ): RSS2.0 wrinkles. Sometimes I get links within blog reported within the rss:content or description elements, sometimes not (depending on the blog). That's a little sad, 'cuz it disrupts the construction of sioc:links_to information, and I'd like to explore what could be done with that info. For example, I think it's interesting to compare the tags/categories used on a post with the tags/categories used on a post the first post links to.

The SIOC Ontology and fora for teaching and learning

Thu, 2006-11-02 15:10 — patrickmj

0As lots of classes and groups are taking off with blogging, we're starting to address something that I hinted at in my last post, the possibilities for sparking more intellectual interaction between the classes that have overlapping topics. One is Talkdigger, the subject of my last post. But deeper down is one of the ontologies Talkdigger depends on, the SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) project.

0The idea is pretty simple--gee, we have all these wonderful online communities within blogs, community sites, discussion boards, etc. Wouldn't it be neat if the Drupal-powered ones could share information with the Wordpress-powered ones? Plugins let that happen by exporting the relevant info and making it available on the Semantic Web, ready for something like Talkdigger or another applicatoin to pick up and bring together. Or, just for it to be in a repository ready to get sparqled by another app. Voila and ta-daa! Youv've got the connections between those communities!

0The Drupal SIOC module is here, and the Wordpress plugin is here.

0SIOC includes properties (roughly the same as fields) for things like membership in a forum, roles within a forum, avatars used, and of course information about replies, links, and relations. The full technical spec is here.

Talkdigger, Semantic Web developments, and cross-class connections.

Wed, 2006-11-01 19:01 — patrickmj

0Fantastic and exciting developments in one of my favorite worlds, that of rdf and the semantic web! I haven't had a chance to surf around and read material for a while, so there's too much for one blog post and I'll get to them all eventually. The big ones to know about are version 3 of Piggybank, the SIOC ontology (where was I that I missed this coming up?!?), and Talkdigger.

0 Talkdigger makes a nice move in describing itself as "Semantic Web Ready." It's an apt description, I think, in pointing up the new ways of envisioning the relationships between content on the web that the semantic web will bring while tacitly acknowledging that it's not in the air yet. But with Talkdigger, we're getting to liftoff velocity.

0Talkdigger lets users pick out a conversation taking place on the web by focusing on a URL that's a node in that conversation. It then searches around, both in a general web search and within other conversations already in the system, for other nodes in the conversation and starts putting together the relationships between them. In that way it is similar to co-comment (I confess I haven't used co-comment, though, so I hope someone who has will help make the comparison). It uses the SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) ontology to produce the connections. The result is a way to make connections between online conversations and the people producing them.

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