A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities, or SIOC, is an attempt to link online community sites, to use Semantic Web technologies to describe the information that communities have about their structure and contents, and to find related information and new connections between content items and other community objects. SIOC is based around the use of machine-readable information provided by these sites.

Take a look at the SIOC ontology site for a detailed description.

Why do I blog this?

With the current lifestream / activity stream trend on the Web it is becoming more and more important to aggregate bits of information from a variety of heterogeneous services. Semantic technologies can be a good fit for these scenarios in the long run.

For Tagcrumbs we are already supporting SIOC in the simplest form. See the RDF representation for a placemark of a recently opened museum in Berlin. It states that ‘cornelius’ submitted a placemark with a specific location, a title and description and further metadata. Time for activity aggregators to support SIOC and you will be able to see what kind of places your friends are interested in.

P.S. The SIOC standard good some good adoption in the last time.