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

Fantastic 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.

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.

Talkdigger 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.