Re: Classifying Resources

Danny Ayers wrote:
>
> On 06/12/06, Orri Erling <erling@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Good list - can it go on the (either) Wiki somewhere?
>
>> Like this, queries like "sweo beginner presentation" give meaningful 
>> results
>> on del.icio.us.
>>
>>
>> Of course, all this classification could be represented as a SKOS 
>> ontology.
>
> Volunteering..? ;-)
>
> I think it could also be useful to record the date/time and person
> doing the tagging - such terms from the Tag Ontology [1] should work
> ok with SKOS.
>
>> When stored as for example a SIOC graph where topics correspond to 
>> tags  and
>> bookmarks to posts, any SPARQL compatible  faceted browser or such 
>> provides
>> a ready-to-go user interface for discovery.  We'll show this along 
>> the way.
>> The  del.icio.us database with systematic tagging will be fine for 
>> input.
>
> So how do you get from del.icio.us to graph? The RSS 1.0 feed seems
> the obvious candidate, although if I remember correctly it's pre-2004
> RDF. Might (perversly) be easiest to eat it through XSLT, change it to
> using SKOS/Tag Ontology/SIOC or whatever.

Import the Feeds into the ODS-Feeds Data Space. That's it.

Once in ODS you have the Bookmarks projected as Instance Data based on 
the SIOC Ontology (with SKOS integrated).

I will knock something up sometime today, and as indicated in the Telcon 
simply publish a URI.
>
>> There should be no privacy concerns since this is all simply about
>> expressing opinions on publicly available material.

Not only that, if the data is on the Web in public context (del.icio.us, 
Wikis, Blogs etc..) It's safe to assume its a Data-Web contribution 
anyhow :-)

Kingsley
>
> Right.
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
>
> [1] http://www.holygoat.co.uk/projects/tags/
>
>


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Received on Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:34:14 UTC