Hi Christopher -

That is a very good question - and it brings up the notion of a
distributed community.

Perhaps we need a notion of sioc:Community as you've described. A
sioc:Forum can have sioc:Posts that span sites, but what if there is a
sioc:Site that isn't just on one site or location but is in multiple
places. Perhaps the sioc:Site is the wrong term, and should actually be
a Community...

At the moment, all we could do would be use sioc:links_to to create a
linkage between two forums, but this would not express the fact that the
Forums form part of a single community.

An example is the SIOC mailing list on Google Groups and the forums at
rdfs.org - how do we say these are the same community?

Talk soon,

John.
--
Christoph Görn wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've been playing with different SIOC things and have a question how
> a Community is defined? SIOC assumes that a Site hosts different
> Forums , which may be derived from blogs or mailingslists. All that is
> held in a RDF store. From my understanding, a linkage (which defines
> two or more sources of SIOC data as "the same Community") between a
> Google mailinglist and a blog is missing. How could that be linked up?
>
> Using a rdf:Collection like in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/#example17 still needs to type the
> Collection, requiring a sioc:Community.
>
> Any other ideas for linkage of SIOC source to form a community?
>
> Christoph
> --Christoph Görn
> http://B4mad.Net/FOAF/goern.rdf#goern
>
> Usability schmusability... where's the part where we talk about how
> this helps users kick ass?
>
>

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

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