SIOC

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Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC) is a Semantic Web technology. SIOC provides methods for interconnecting discussion methods such as blogs, forums and mailing lists to each other. It consists of the SIOC ontology, an open-standard machine readable format for expressing the information contained both explicitly and implicitly in Internet discussion methods, of SIOC metadata producers for a number of popular blogging platforms and content management systems, and of storage and browsing/searching systems for leveraging this SIOC data.

The SIOC vocabulary is based on RDF and is defined using OWL. SIOC documents may use other existing ontologies to enrich the information described. Additional information about creator of the post can be described using FOAF Vocabulary and foaf:maker property. Rich content of the post (e.g., HTML representation) can be described using AtomOWL or RSS 1.0 Content module.

[edit] Example

<sioc:Post rdf:about="http://johnbreslin.com/blog/2006/09/07/creating-connections-between-discussion-clouds-with-sioc/">
    <dc:title>Creating connections between discussion clouds with SIOC</dc:title>
    <dcterms:created>2006-09-07T09:33:30Z</dcterms:created>
    <sioc:has_container rdf:resource="http://johnbreslin.com/blog/index.php?sioc_type=site#weblog"/>
    <sioc:has_creator>
        <sioc:User rdf:about="http://johnbreslin.com/blog/author/cloud/" rdfs:label="Cloud">
            <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://johnbreslin.com/blog/index.php?sioc_type=user&sioc_id=1"/>
        </sioc:User>     </sioc:has_creator>
      <sioc:content>SIOC provides a unified vocabulary for content and interaction description: a semantic layer that can co-exist with existing discussion platforms.
      </sioc:content>
    <sioc:topic rdfs:label="Semantic Web" rdf:resource="http://johnbreslin.com/blog/category/semantic-web/"/>
    <sioc:topic rdfs:label="Blogs" rdf:resource="http://johnbreslin.com/blog/category/blogs/"/>
    <sioc:has_reply>
        <sioc:Post rdf:about="http://johnbreslin.com/blog/2006/09/07/creating-connections-between-discussion-clouds-with-sioc/#comment-123928">
            <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://johnbreslin.com/blog/index.php?sioc_type=comment&sioc_id=123928"/>
        </sioc:Post>
    </sioc:has_reply>
</sioc:Post>