Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
The SIOC specification (Semantically Linked Online Communities) is an effort to distribute the social graph. It is basically a union of Fried-Of-A-Friend (FOAF) and SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System). The documentation is opaque, unfortunately, and it is a shame to see a semantic web initiative without an RSS feed. I discovered it only through the reposting of this item on various email lists, which describes the renaming of the 'user' element to 'userAccount'. Some of the applications look interesting, like Twitter2RDF - but I still get the feeling that this is YATDS (Yet Another top Down Standard), because they don't even do the little things right (like an RSS feed, actual author names on the posts, text instead of an image for a title).

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