We’ve created a series of three one-page summaries for those new to SIOC:
 1: Executive Summary |
 2: User’s Guide |
 3: Developer’s Guide |
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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!).
We’ve recently moved the SIOC pages from a subdirectory at rdfs.org to its own site at:
On the advice of the SIOC community, we believe that having its own domain will improve the visibility of SIOC, and will allow better linkage to other projects such as FOAF. The ontology itself (namespace, specification) will remain at rdfs.org.
All comments welcome - thanks!
There’s been quite a few happenings in the “siocosphere” during the past month:
- Christoph Goern posted some details about how to enable SIOC output for a community site such as a planet aggregator; I hope to work on this myself WRT Planet PHP.
- Again, Christoph has detailed how to generate SIOC data from mailing list archives. Next, we could look at systems like MailMan and MHonArc.
- Alex Passant visited us in DERI last week, and together with Uldis Bojars he worked on both a SIOC browser and also a SIOC module for PEAR and PHP5. It was great to have Alex visiting, and he did amazing stuff during the few short days he was here… Thanks Alex!
- Christoph has also done some SIOC live query work, in parallel with #3, as well as describing how SIOC can be autodiscovered using RDFa.
- Fred Giasson has produced a detailed post on how he has made use of SIOC to connect stuff within the TalkDigger community… Nice one Fred - love this!
- More people are installing SIOC plugins on their blogs, including Christoph Goern, Harry Chen.
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.
Announcement from CaptSolo about a new version of his WordPress SIOC plugin:
New version of the WordPress SIOC plugin is available at: http://sw.deri.org/svn/uldis/2006/03/wp-sioc/wp-content/plugins/
This plugin exports SIOC metadata from the WordPress weblog engine. The SIOC vocabulary is defined in http://rdfs.org/sioc/
This is a fully functional development (beta testing) version. Please use it and report comments, suggestions and bugs to the mailing list. Once the feedback confirms it is OK, it will be put on the SIOC website.
Continue reading ‘New Version of WP SIOC Plugin from CaptSolo’
Alexandre Passant has released a SIOC plugin for the DotClear blogging platform… Excellent!
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.
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