Information Management
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The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and it is not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar? Why not?
C Semantic Web Activity
The SIOC initiative (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) aims to enable the integration of online community information. SIOC provides a Semantic Web ontology for representing rich data from the Social Web in RDF. It has recently achieved significant adoption through its usage in a variety of commercial and open-source software applications , and is commonly used in conjunction with the FOAF vocabulary for expressing personal profile and social networking information. By becoming a standard way for expressing user-generated content from such sites, SIOC enables new kinds of usage scenarios for online community site data, and allows innovative semantic applications to be built on top of the existing Social Web.
sioc-project.org | Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities
W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking , 15-16 January 2009, Barcelona John G. Breslin 1 , 2 , Stefan Decker 1 , Manfred Hauswirth 1 , Gearoid Hynes 1 , Danh Le Phuoc 1 , Alexandre Passant , Axel Polleres 1 , Cornelius Rabsch 1 , Vinny Reynolds 1