Version 1.0 of an API for Perl has been released on CPAN!
The CPAN page for the SIOC API is at:
http://search.cpan.org/~geewiz/SIOC-v1.0.0/
A description of the project itself is available at:
Thanks to Jochen Lillich, Thomas N. Burg, and also to Internet Privatstiftung Austria (IPA) for funding this work.
The first version of a SIOC exporter for phpBB 2.0.x is now available. You can download it from DERI's subversion repository.
I've performed two test installs of the plugin at boards.co.nz and boards.com.cn.
Do let us know of any issues or comments either here or on the sioc-dev mailing list.
The power of discussion methods via online community sites such as weblogs, bulletin boards and mailing lists lies in their number and the large amount of data that is available for harvesting. Most blog engines already have RSS export functionality, and some boards are beginning to export RSS as well. Since the majority of these discussion engines are based on open source software or can be extended by using plugins, it is straightforward to modify existing export functions or to create plugins to generate metadata conforming to the SIOC ontology. A SIOC API for PHP makes the development of such SIOC plugins and exporters as easy as possible.
The PHP Export API provides an easy way for developers to create SIOC exporters, as it maps SIOC Classes to PHP objects, with simple functions to export the created data.
More informations about the API are available on this wiki page.
API is currently used in DotClear and B2evo exporters
Chrisoph Goern AKA [GNU] has published details of how to add SIOC content to a blog aggregator or "planet":
SWAML
SWAML, or Semantic Web Archives of a Mailing List, can be used to provide an archive of mailing list posts in SIOC format.
For more information, please visit the SWAML page at swaml.berlios.de.
Mailing List RSS Conversion
Chrisoph Goern AKA [GNU] has published details of how to convert a mailing list to SIOC format:
Uldis Bojars has written a SIOC exporter plugin for WordPress 1.5+. This allows the production of SIOC metadata from your weblog.
The plugin can be found at http://sw.deri.org/svn/sw/2005/08/sioc/wordpress/
To install save plugin files [sioc.php + sioc-include.php] to the WordPress plugin directory (located in ./wp-content/plugins) and enable this plugin in the Admin->Plugins menu.
Data created by plugin can be accessed by following autodiscovery links that are added to the blog's main page and all blog posts. Main SIOC page can be found at your.host.here/wordpress-folder/?sioc_type=site.
Semantic Radar and SIOC
You may use Semantic Radar to detect presence of SIOC data on web pages. It is a Firefox extension that detects links to RDF metadata (SIOC, FOAF, DOAP, ...) and informs about them via a browser status bar icon. Clicking on the icon will provide a user-friendly view of RDF data.
News: Content negotiation added (in v1.21).
Point RDF content regotiation aware tool such as Tabulator to a blog post and it will get back RDF data, avoiding the need to find and follow autodiscovery links in HTML.
Maybe you're already aware of this, but I've just noticed that the WordPress exporter uses 2 relations that are not listed in the specs:
* sioc:title, instead of dc:title or sioc:subject ?
* sioc:made, instead of sioc:creator_of ?
Were these properties in previous specs versions ? or will be ? Or just a mistake :) ?
A SIOC exporter for dotclear (a widely-used french blogging software) is available.
The plugin is based on the API and exports:
For each posts, related links and categories will be extracted, using respectively sioc:links_to and sioc:topic.
Latest version of the plugin available at:
Hi,
After submitting a bug and a some requests to SIOC exporter for Drupal, I took the liberty to update the module, as John suggested me.
Changelog:
Fix
- Fixed bug in relative URLs
see http://drupal.org/node/40542
Features
- Added ability to set queries LIMIT
see http://drupal.org/node/40544
- Added sioc:content_encoded for sioc:Post
see http://drupal.org/node/40543
It should be available in CVS archive soon.
Cheers,
Alex.
(nb: I didn't tag anything in CVS)
