SIOC

[ros]

Hi,



I'm very new in this subject. FYI, my task now is to develop a portal
that has an adaptive capability. What I'm trying to do is to provide
interconnecting to any blogs, mailing list, forum, etc, with the user
interest topic by using SIOC. Means that my system can crawl and
import all the SIOC RDF Data that are based on the user profile/
interest..



My Question are:



1. What are the steps that I should follow?

2. How to read the RDF Data?

3. What are the contents to be displayed?

4. We are using Sharepoint as our Document Management System. How to
export the blogs, forum in the Sharepoint?



I'm very appreciating your help.

Ros-Liza Abdul Rahman

Knowledge Technology

MIMOS Berhad

Malaysia

[Uldis Bojars]

Hi Ros,

> I'm very new in this subject. FYI, my task now is to develop a portal
> that has an adaptive capability. What I'm trying to do is to provide
> interconnecting to any blogs, mailing list, forum, etc, with the user
> interest topic by using SIOC. Means that my system can crawl and
> import all the SIOC RDF Data that are based on the user profile/
> interest..

You describe an interesting project. I wonder if other participants of
the SIOC-Dev community have experience in working with SIOC in
SharePoint (which you mention your are using).

> 1. What are the steps that I should follow?

The architecture can differ and it would be interesting what you come
up with / what works best for you. In general you would make sure that
all the data you want is exported in RDF, crawl and collect together
SIOC data and then query the data to look for conversation about the
same topic, created by same persons, ...

This may be the simplest approach and should work for you, but there
can be other options too (e.g., a distributed approach or publish/
subscribe).

> 2. How to read the RDF Data?

RDF data should be parsed using an RDF parser (same as you'd use an
XML parser or toolkit to process XML). What programming language or
framework are you using?

There are RDF parsers available for most programming languages. You
will find some pointers to lists of RDF toolkits at:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/SW-FAQ#tools

> 3. What are the contents to be displayed?

Depends on what data are exported in SIOC. It would probably include
the content, date, title and some information about the author and
topics. RDF data format is flexible enough so that you can display all
the data provided in a generic fashion.

> 4. We are using Sharepoint as our Document Management System. How to
> export the blogs, forum in the Sharepoint?

Currently I am not aware of a SIOC exporter for SharePoint. Maybe
someone has built one (please write about it if so). If not, then you
may have to build your own SIOC exporters. You can look at existing
SIOC exporters for an example and ask people here in SIOC-Dev for some
advice.

P.S. There is a SIOC exporter for BSCW document management system. I
am not sure if it is public. You do not need it in order to build a
SIOC exporter for SharePoint, but at least you will know that someone
has built an exporter for a similar system.

> Ros-Liza Abdul Rahman
> Knowledge Technology

Uldis

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[prabhu]

Hi,

Even i too work in the same stream. Just, i have started implmnting a
simple tool which will interlink online communties of BSWC and
sharepoint based on sioc.
Iam also new to that area, iam learning fastly. If i get anythng, i l
send u. Do the same as favour me..


regards,
prabhu.

[John Breslin]

Prabhu -

We have some people working on integrating BSCW, BC and NetWeaver with SIOC - so would be good to talk to Deirdre Lee and Vassilios Peristeras in DERI.

Some links:

In the area of collaborative work environments, SIOC is being used in the Ecospace project to export metadata from both BSCW and BC. Here is a BSCW SIOC export service, and there is also a CWE version of the SIOC Explorer (which includes data from both BSCW and BC).

John.
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DERI, NUI Galway
http://sw.deri.org/~jbreslin/
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