Photo Albums in RDF, Semantic Web at Opera and Flickr

Opera is experimenting with Semantic Web technologies.

Kjetil Kjernsmo has started to explain how it's working. He has  
published a few schemas and examples of photos album.

[[[
RDF Schemas are how we describe the meanings of properties and  
classes in RDF, and usually, it is wise to reuse other people's work  
when you make RDF data available.

However, there were one thing on the Opera Community that didn't have  
well-recognised schema that I could use, and that was our photo  
albums. For this, I created a schema, but as it was something that  
many others could use, a number of people from the Semantic Web  
Community came together in an online meeting to discuss and improve  
this schema.

The result is a new schema, with some new properties and classes. It  
is allready in use here on the Opera Community, but we also hope that  
the rest of the people developing for the Semantic Web will use it,  
and that's quite likely to happen, given the consensus behind it.

Specifically, the data can be queried with the SPARQL Engine, but you  
can also have a look behind the new RDF link in your albums, and see  
how for example Eskil's Svalbard Gallery looks. Be sure to enter  
titles and description whereever it is possible, someone will find it  
useful!
]]]

-- Updated Gallery Schema - Semantic Web at Opera - - by Semantic Web
http://my.opera.com/semweb/blog/show.dml/139816
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:14:53 GMT


In the past, we had also this thread around FRBR and Photo albums
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2005Sep/thread.html#2

And also there is the work done by Aaron Straupe Cope to export the  
Flickr data in RDF.
Net-Flickr-RDF-1.5 [2] See the Readme for explanation [3]

Another related question:
	* In a model like flickr, how is it possible to describe the  
threading information of comments about a photo.
	Using OWL:Atom ? http://semtext.org/atom/atom.html




[1] http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/
[2] http://search.cpan.org/~ascope/Net-Flickr-RDF-1.5/
[3] http://search.cpan.org/src/ASCOPE/Net-Flickr-RDF-1.5/README


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Received on Thursday, 23 February 2006 09:27:08 UTC