On Friday I had the pleasure of a chat with Uldis Bojars (also known as CaptSolo), who’s recently being developing social network-oriented applications using Semantic Web technologies. His main area of work over the past few years has been the SIOC project (Semantically-Interlinked
Online Communities), and in the podcast he discusses how the SIOC project anticipated (and fulfils many of the requirements of) the DataPortability initiative. As you can see from the list of links below, there’s a lot happening in this space.

Uldis used two phrases I don’t recall hearing before, but expect to hear a lot more in future. When discussing the recently updated Semantic Radar Firefox plugin he described how it passes data along the “Semantic Web food chain“, and then regarding SIOC Explorer, mining social networks based on “object-centered sociality” (this is described in the paper). Good stuff.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

• Uldis Bojars (blogs)
• Digital Enterprise Research Institute
• RDF (Resource Description Framework)1999 Spec (current RDF at W3C), Tim Berners-Lee’s N3 Birthday Card
• Andreas Harth Talks with Talis
• SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project)
• SIOC Plugins for blogging software etc.
• Semantic Radar
• FOAF (Friend of a Friend), DOAP (Description of a Project), RDFa
• SWAML (Semantic Web Archive of Mailing Lists)
• RDFa Distiller, Ivan Herman
• Tabulator
• Google Social Graph API
• Ecademy Profile
• Alexandre Passant
• Sergio Fernández
• FOAF Autodiscovery
• SIOC Browser
• PingtheSemanticWeb.com
• Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE)
• Sindice semantic index
• DOAPStore
• DBpedia
• DataPortability
• John Breslin, DataPortability and me, JB (video)
• OpenID
• Dopplr
• LiveJournal
• foaf:mbox_sha1sum
• Futurama is Back!
• WebCamp workshop on Social Network Portability / BlogTalk 2008 (March)
• Nova Spivack, Radar Networks
• Dan Brickley
• Paul Miller
• WWW2008 : SIOC Tutorial, Linked Data on the Web Workshop (April)
• 2008 Semantic Technology Conference (May)
• SIOC Ontology (W3C Member Submission)
• John Breslin : 10 years of boards.ie
• Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) Interest Group
• Semantic Web Case Studies and Use Cases
• BSCW, SharePoint
• SIOC Explorer, paper: A Prototype to Explore Content and Context on Social Community Sites
  (pdf)