SIOC profile for 'sioc-project.org' A SIOC profile describes the structure and contents of a community site (e.g., weblog) in a machine processable form. For more information refer to the <a href="http://rdfs.org/sioc">SIOC project page</a> ANN: UMBEL Subject Reference Project Hi All, You are cordially invited to comment or participate in the UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) project. I think it will be a very nice complement to SIOC. UMBEL is a lightweight way to describe the subject(s) of Web content, akin to the relationship "isAbout". It is meant to work universally with HTML, tagging, microformats or other standard practices, including various RDF schemas and more formal ontologies. Its reference subject 'backbone' is derived from the intersection of common subjects found on popularly used Web sites and other accepted subject references. UMBEL is very simple with few ambitions. It is merely a reference 'bag of subjects' to help relate Web data sets to one another. UMBEL makes no presumptions to replace formal domain or upper ontologies, has little or no inferential power, and makes no assumptions about the means to describe or serialize the underlying data. UMBEL is meant to work with data sets ranging from RSS and Atom feeds to tagging, microformats, RDF, existing schema and other data and metadata models. UMBEL's development is being backed by a number of leading open data efforts and entities. In addition to its core reference subjects, the UMBEL project will be providing look up, query, registration, pinging, and related services. The project is completely open under a community process with all products available via Creative Commons licenses. The initial project site is at http://www.umbel.org, including an introduction (http://www.umbel.org/intro.xhtml) (the best place to start!) and the draft project specification (http://www.umbel.org/ proposal.xhtml). A mailing list you can monitor or join is at http://groups.google.com/group/umbel-ontology. We welcome and invite your participation! Best regards, Mike Bergman * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Please accept apologies in advance if you receive duplicate announcements; this was posted to a few appropriate mailing lists. In future, all announcements will be made directly from the UMBEL Web site. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIOC-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sioc-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sioc-dev-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sioc-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- 2007-07-12T22:26:42+01:00 2007-08-09T13:24:54+01:00