1. A (brief) introduction to
SIOC and MOAT
Alexandre Passant - http://apassant.net
LaLIC, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
State of the semantic web in the BBC - 30 June 2008
2. Modeling Social Media
Contributions with
SIOC
http://flickr.com/photos/ejpphoto/2314610838/ by EJP Photo
3. Social Media Contributions
• Lots of user-created and distributed content:
• Blog posts, wiki pages, pictures, bookmarks ...
• Called “Social Media Contributions” or SMC
• A need for common semantics to
• Provide a single model for any SMC, wherever it
comes from
• Enables the use of SPARQL queries instead of APIs
• Interlink data and find relationships between content