4. Founder of new tech post
• socialmedia.net blog
• Galway-based publisher
of stories focused on
emerging, cutting-edge,
innovative technologies
• 4000 readers in March
-> 9000 readers in
May 2011
• Partners: IIC (San Jose)
• Newtechpost.com
5. Co-founder of Boards.ie
• Ireland’s largest
discussion forum site
• 2.25 million visitors/
month
• Irish people seeking
information, or just
chatting about sports,
TV, politics, health,
whatever
6. It's the social objects we
create…
• Discussions
• Bookmarks
• Annotations
• Microblogs
• Multimedia
15. Two-way street: semantic web
can help social web, vice versa
• Can Use semantic web to describe people,
content objects and the connections that
bind them all together so that social sites
can interoperate via semantics
• In the other direction, object-centered
social websites can serve as rich social
data sources for semantic applications
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16. Sioc = frost (gaelic)
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17. Semantically-Interlinked Online
Communities (SIOC)
• Goal of the SIOC ontology is to address
interoperability issues on the Social Web
– sioc-project.org
– W3c member submission in 2007
– SIOC has been adopted in a framework of
100 applications or modules deployed on
hundreds of sites
– Web 2.0, enterprise info integ, HCLS, e-gov
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18. The steps taken
1. Develop an ontology of terms for
representing rich data from the Social
Web
2. Create a food chain for producing,
collecting and consuming SIOC data
3. As well dissemination via papers about
SIOC, provide docs and examples at sioc-
project.org
19.
20. Some of the SIOC core ontology
classes and properties
23. Sioc can be used to...
• ...provide a layer of rdfa metadata from
a social website, e.g. to enhance search
results
• ...get a Complete representation/xml
dump of a social website (export, import)
• ...be a native format for social websites
• ...do other stuff; just imagine
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29. RDFA in drupal 7
• Drupal cms used by 1 percent of all sites
• drupal 7 released in january, semantic
web support built-in:
• Rdfa (sioc, foaf, dublin core, skos) data
for blog posts, forums, etc.
• Video at www.semantic-drupal.com
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