Re: What is the SIOC-o-sphere?

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>
> So in a nutshell we have a potential "Killer Demonstration" for the 
> Blogosphere (which is the Web 2.0 epicenter) that simplifies 
> comprehension of the fundamental Semantic Web value proposition: a Web 
> of Data that's oriented towards "Meshing" and "Joining". A 
> complimentary enhancement to the "Web of Services" (what Web 2.0 
> really is all about) that emits data that can only be mashed due to 
> lack of context and meaning.
>
Exactly, and it's easy to see what you can do with such a siocosphere 
(see picture in [1]) - find me all my posts and comments across blogs, 
forums, multimedia upload sites; find everything written by people in my 
extended social network (three degrees away) with the topic "politics"; 
show blogs by anybody who has replied to something I've said; allow me 
to reuse something (not just the text) I've said on my blog in a forum 
post; (apply imagination to [2]!).  We had a demonstrator for the SIOC 
which shows a social network of commenters - starting with my blog, who 
were the people commenting on my posts, and on the next ring out, who 
were the people commenting on their posts, and showing all the 
connections between the rings... [3]

Wing - So far, some of the applications I know of that work with SIOC 
data are OpenLink Dataspaces [4], the SIOC browser, SWSE [5], and Buxon 
(part of SWAML) [6].

More about the "state of the siocosphere" is referenced here [7]!

Thanks,

John.

[1] http://sioc-project.org/files/middleware_big.png
[2] http://sioc-project.org/files/sioc_foaf_skos_2.png
[3] http://sioc-project.org/files/browser_replies_big.png
[4] http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef
[5] http://swse.deri.org/
[6] http://swaml.berlios.de/
[7] 
http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2006/11/07/state-of-the-sioc-o-sphere-number-3/

-- 
Dr. John Breslin
DERI, NUI Galway
http://sw.deri.org/~jbreslin/
john.breslin@deri.org

Received on Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:28:14 UTC