Re: tweet2rdf vocabulary convergence

hi Benji,

Evan always seems very responsive on the statusnet list.

Libby

On 28 Sep 2009, at 12:15, Benjamin Nowack wrote:

>
> Toby (or anyone else),
> are you in contact with Evan? I see that the status.net rdf schema is
> not published yet. Would they perhaps be interested/willing to use the
> potential result of this as their ont? IOW, they'll get a proper RDF
> Schema for their namespace, and we'd have at least one thing less to
> agree on. Anyone aware of other statusnet terms apart from postIcon?
>
> Cheers,
> Benji
>
> --
> Benjamin Nowack
> http://bnode.org/
> http://semsol.com/
>
>
> On 28.09.2009 11:32:09, Toby Inkster wrote:
>>> There are multiple tools and services that convert twitter profiles
>>> and contacts to RDF (e.g semantictweet[1] or knowee), I think they  
>>> all
>>> mostly re-use stuff from FOAF and don't really need new terms.
>>
>> A good place to start would be StatusNet. This is the open source  
>> software
>> that powers identi.ca, and dozens of smaller microblogging sites.  
>> It has a
>> slightly different feature set to Twitter, but is probably close  
>> enough.
>>
>> Importantly, it outputs RDF. Not everything is available in RDF  
>> (yet), but
>> a lot of data is, including subscription data, hashtags, in-reply- 
>> to info,
>> etc. Here is, for example, my FOAF file on identi.ca:
>>
>>   http://identi.ca/tobyink/foaf
>>
>> And here's my RSS 1.0 file:
>>
>>   http://identi.ca/tobyink/rss
>>
>> (There are currently problems with the <enclosure> elements in the  
>> RSS 1.0
>> feeds. There's a patch for this working its way into StatusNet's
>> repository.)
>>
>> Some development code which may be of interest:
>>
>> http://gitorious.org/~tobyink/statusnet/statusnot/commit/d62b8ec987d7eaa331741e960d2
>> c9c036a2d4df5
>> http://gitorious.org/~tobyink/statusnet/statusnot/commit/f77f3e7de2c7975116c3a996fde
>> 3df86d9839687
>>
>> -Toby
>>
>
>

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