Blog data translation project

[John Breslin]

Dear all -

The Intl Conf on Weblogs and Social Media are providing a large blog
dataset to participants.

This could be a nice set of data to convert to SIOC, along with related
links, topics, user info.

Anyone interested in participating in such a project?

http://www.icwsm.org/data.html

All the best,

John.

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Dr. John Breslin
DERI, NUI Galway
http://sw.deri.org/~jbreslin/
john.b...@deri.org

[Alexandre Passant]

Hi,

On 9/15/06, John Breslin <john.b...@deri.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all -
>
> The Intl Conf on Weblogs and Social Media are providing a large blog
> dataset to participants.
>
> This could be a nice set of data to convert to SIOC, along with related
> links, topics, user info.
>
> Anyone interested in participating in such a project?
>
> http://www.icwsm.org/data.html

Regarding data and its format, http://www.icwsm.org/format.txt,
comments are excluded (or not related to posts directly) and authors
are only identified by their name, so we won't be able to work on the
user aspect and relationships between posts. (Even if we can try
things like use post permalink to find any user information on the
weblog - FOAF formatted or not, and add it to the export)
Yet we could work on outlinks, topics and categories to translate this
format to SIOC data and then 3-store and query it, but we must ensure
people will see value-added using SIOC rather than their XML format.

So, why not trying it !

Alex.