SIOC accomodates ThreasML in a natural way via the Discussion Data Space

SIOC provides a nice vehicle for modeling data containers (Data Spaces) on the Web. At the end of the day, every container (Blog Space, Wiki Space, Bookmark Space, Photo Space) is a host of items, and each item can be of one or more types e.g Posts, Wikiwords, Bookmarks, Photos etc (basically the way we modelling everyting in the real world mentally).

FOAF not only covers our Social Networks, it also covers other “Objects of Sociality” via enable connectiion via the things we’ve made and exposed via the Web (e.g Blog Posts, Shared Bookmarks, Wikiwords, Photos etc..).

The Bibliographic Ontology, add additional granulaity to Document modelling and when used in conjunction with RDFa, you end up with a real power in relation to describing what existing web pages are about in structured form.

As you can see, shared vocabularies / ontologies / schemas are gettting clearer now that “Linked Data” is providing a mechanism for demonstrating practical utility, which in of itself provides better demonstration of the larger Semantic Web vision.

Links:
1. http://bibliontology.com/ - Bibliographic Ontology

2. http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/presentations/DataPortability_and_DataSpaces/DataPortability_and_DataSpaces.html - Example of RDFa and Bibliographic Ontology in action (*best seen via a Linked Data aware user agent such as the plugin below*)

3. http://virtuoso-images.s3.amazonaws.com/rdfb.xpi - a Firefox 2.x or 3.x plugin that exposes an new option to the Web Browsing in the form of a new “View | Linked Data Sources” main / context menu option to existing “View | Page Source” and “View | Page Info” options

Kingsley Idehen

Yes, SIOC does cater for Threaded Discussion exposed as a Linked Data Graph (as noted by Dan already). Basically, there is work underway to bring IBIS [1] and other Discourse oriented efforts into the Web (naturally as Linked Data).

The neat thing here is that ThreadML and all of these efforts can co-exist, the transformation from ThreadML to a Linked Data oriented Discourse Space is very low cost.

Thus, whether we call it ThreadML, Discourse Web, DebateGraph etc.. Let’s make Discourse Discovery and Participation on the Web much easier than it is today.

The Blogosphere, Wikisphere, Picturescape, Boardscape etc. have always been about huge discussion spaces in my eyes Of course, SPAM impeded the initial bootstrap, so any rival has to demonstrate robust machine level handling of the SPAM challenge.

Links:

1. http://hyperdata.org/xmlns/ibis/index.htm

Kingsley

In the interim, a lot of related ground has been covered by SIOC, and there’s some interesting stuff happening around debategraph:

http://sioc-project.org/
http://www.debategraph.org/

Unfortunately Trackback seems to have fallen by the wayside, but I guess we’ve now got Twitter…