FOAF

Open government and Linked Data; now it's time to draft...

Posted Wed, 06/24/2009 - 20:25 by John Breslin

For the past few months, there have been a variety of calls for feedback and suggestions on how the US Government can move towards becoming more open and transparent, especially in terms of their dealings with citizens and also for disseminating information about their recent financial stimulus package.

Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere #7

Posted Sat, 04/05/2008 - 22:09 by John Breslin

20080403a.png It's been three months since my last round-up of all things SIOC-ed, so here is entry number seven in the series:

DataPortability and me, JB

Posted Wed, 02/20/2008 - 23:07 by John Breslin

As part of the DataPortability initiative, I've put together this video explaining why I think it's important and how it fits in with the Semantic Web and SIOC:

Semantic Web for Dummies

Posted Wed, 02/20/2008 - 13:06 by John Breslin

20080220a.jpg I referenced this on the SIOC-Dev mailing list recently, and when I pasted it on the DataPortability.org steering group chat this morning (in parallel with our first phone conference), Drum

SIOC + FOAF + SKOS

Posted Wed, 09/27/2006 - 15:33 by John Breslin

Alex mentioned that may be some confusion between foaf:Person and sioc:User - I hope that this picture showing the alignments between SIOC, FOAF and SKOS will help to clarify that a foaf:Person can own many sioc:User profiles (via the foaf:holdsOnlineAccount relationship). I have also included some connections from SIOC to the SKOS ontology (aliman, hope you don't mind the logo!).

vBulletin Social Network Visualisation

Posted Tue, 05/02/2006 - 19:56 by John Breslin

I've already blogged about graphical social network visualisations for boards.ie; I'm now adding to my wiki the scripts used to pre-generate the XML for Prefuse graphs of these networks (i.e. user networks of vBulletin mutual buddy links). These are similar to those used to visualise the blogosphere on Planet Journals as well (just using blogroll links instead of buddy links).

http://www.johnbreslin.com/wiki/index.php/VBulletin_Social_Network_Visualisation

New Versions of vBFriends / vBFOAF for vBulletin 3.5

Posted Fri, 11/25/2005 - 04:06 by John Breslin

I've updated both the vBFOAF RDF metadata producer and vBFriends social network browser extensions for vBulletin 3.5.

This has been useful because I've learned a bit about how the new "hook" system works in vBulletin 3.5, and can use this for my next two add-ons that I'm planning to implement next week: a forum post tagger (using Freetag) and a SIOC RDF metadata exporter (which will also export these tags).