Federated Social Web Summit / Portland, Oregon, USA / 18th July 2010

1. sioc
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2. Data silos on the social web
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3. Can be linked
via semantics

4. Social Semantic Web

5. Two-way street: semantic web
can help social web, vice versa
• Can Use semantic web to describe people,
content objects and the connections that
bind them all together so that social sites
can interoperate via semantics
• In the other direction, object-centered
social websites can serve as rich social
data sources for semantic applications
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6. Semantically-Interlinked Online
Communities (SIOC)
• Goal of the SIOC ontology is to address
interoperability issues on the Social Web
– sioc-project.org
– W3c member submission in 2007
– SIOC has been adopted in a framework of
100 applications or modules deployed on
hundreds of sites
– Web 2.0, enterprise info integ, HCLS, e-gov
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8. Some of the SIOC core ontology
classes and properties

10. Sioc food chain

11. Some applications using sioc

12. RDFA in drupal 7
• Drupal cms used by 1 percent of all sites
• Five Alpha versions of drupal 7 released
already, semantic web support built-in:
– Release candidate version on its way
• Rdfa (sioc, foaf, dublin core, skos) data
for blog posts, forums, etc.
• Video at www.semantic-drupal.com
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13. Rdfa on newsweek.com

14. An ontology stack for the social
semantic web

15. Distributed
Architecture
www.Smob.me

16. Sioc can be used to...
• ...provide a layer of rdfa metadata from
a social website, e.g. to enhance search
results
• ...get a Complete representation/xml
dump of a social website (export, import)
• ...be a native format for social websites
• ...do other stuff; just imagine; Thanks!
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