Alex mentioned that may be some confusion between foaf:Person and sioc:User - I hope that this picture showing the alignments between SIOC, FOAF and SKOS will help to clarify that a foaf:Person can own many sioc:User profiles (via the foaf:holdsOnlineAccount relationship). I have also included some connections from SIOC to the SKOS ontology (aliman, hope you don’t mind the logo!).
There’s been quite a few happenings in the “siocosphere” during the past month:
Wow! I am blown away by all this… I hope to contribute more myself now that I’m back.
I’m currently enhancing the blogging section of our tutorial for the World Wide Web conference next week with more information on Structured Blogging, and having installed the SIOC WordPress plugin on a WordPress MU-powered site I run, I’ve realised that Structured Blogging isn’t going to take off by just providing plugins for single-user blogging platforms like WordPress and Moveable Type. It is more suited to multi-user blogging communities powered by WordPress MU and Drupal.
I’ve already asked James Farmer about Structured Blogging and WPMU compatability, because it currently doesn’t work out of the box with WPMU (although this may change with a forthcoming WPMU 1.0 stable release). If anyone has managed to get this to work, please let us know because I believe that this could be a boon for the Structured Blogging cause… I’ll happily install it for the couple of hundred journals.ie users when it is ready!
For those interested in crawling RDF metadata, I’ve installed Uldis’ SIOC plugin for WordPress at journals.ie. This is automatically enabled for all blogs.
I’ve updated both the vBFOAF RDF metadata producer and vBFriends social network browser extensions for vBulletin 3.5.
This has been useful because I’ve learned a bit about how the new “hook” system works in vBulletin 3.5, and can use this for my next two add-ons that I’m planning to implement next week: a forum post tagger (using Freetag) and a SIOC RDF metadata exporter (which will also export these tags).
ISWC 2005 ended yesterday; had a productive and enjoyable week at the conference here in Galway.
And yesterday, I won an iPod Nano in the ISWC 2005 Semantic Bank annotation competition! Thanks to all the Simile team, and I hope that we can produce and add lots of SIOC data to the bank shortly…
Speaking of which, CaptSolo, libby, danbri, aliman and myself met on Wednesday afternoon to try and align SIOC with FOAF and SKOS. I think it was a really useful discussion and once we have formalised the results of the discussion we can start publishing SIOC data “in anger” really soon.
For the 500 or so Semantic Web-heads arriving in the city, Emmet’s map of Galway’s free wifi areas may come in handy!
Events like ISWC 2005 inspire / remind you to go and do stuff, so I forgot to blog that I’ve installed Uldis‘ WordPress SIOC exporter on my blog. It’s pretty cool, one or two things to iron out but so far so good… You can get it at the SIOC WordPress page.
Was talking to danbri and Ina earlier and mentioned the neat AROUNDMe social networking software system by Barnraiser. Why do I think it’s neat? Well, as well as having lots of features, it is open source / free, and therefore I think we can easily plug some FOAF (and SIOC) generators into it once I figure out if it can be ‘opened up’ (i.e. turn off login requirements).
The tutorials and workshops for ISWC 2005 began today; of particular interest to our research cluster is the Semantic Desktop workshop, and I hope the associated social event works out okay tonight as I had to organise a venue (Krusoes Restaurant at the Harbour Hotel).
Anyway, here are some ISWC 2005 related links:
The invite-only Information Juggernaut industry day is on tomorrow, with speakers including Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) and John Herlihy (Google). I’ll be at an internal DERI International meeting on Monday, but then the conference proper kicks off on Tuesday…
So TechCamp went really well, and thanks to Ed and Piaras for a smooth operation, as well as Gavin and Jack for the super venue, and Dan et al. at H365 for the food 
My presentation got a good response; there were some people looking for my slides and the animated GIF I used to present the idea of the Semantic Desktop, so here you go.
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