Semantically Interlinking Online Communities With SIOC
February 4, 2010
Keywords: SIOC, Social Web, RDF, Ontology
The Health Care and Life Sciences research community today has several online communities in the form of blogs and wikis containing vital information necessary for researchers. There is a need to connect these individual silos to facilitate interoperability and reuse of rich knowledge base and content these networks possess. Meet the SIOC initiative (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities), which provides a semantic web ontology to facilitate a standard way of representing the information in RDF format. SIOC provides a platform for new usage scenarios of online community data and establishes a model to connect the silos together. Learn more about this initiative at sioc-project.org and find a detailed document at w3.org.
