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With encouragement from Steffen Schaefer and Tom Heath I finally got to Europe for the 4th European Semantic Web Conference and the Scripting for the Semantic Web Workshop.

Richard and Steffen in Munich

Coming from a java background the workshop opened by my eyes to the flexibility of scripting languages, especially in the context of the semantic web. Now have a stronger focus on PHP, JavaScript, Ruby (Ruby on Rails) and Python, especially when developing lightweight semantic web apps. AJAX and REST design paradigms are taken as a given. Ripple also looks like a promising language to explore when working with RDF.

Also enjoyed meeting Danny Ayers. Danny has blazed a lot of the trail that I seem to be following, e.g. Danny’s Project Vocabulary Ontology provides a good start for the project management ontology needed as part of enabling CDMS for the Semantic Web.

Installed the SIOC Exporter for WordPress and can now execute the query:

http://blog.3kbo.com/?sioc_type=site

to return an RDF document with site information that can be used for additional queries.

Information about authors is held as sioc:User individuals that can be accessed via XPath as //sioc:Usergroup/sioc:has_member/sioc:User

Information about posts is held as sioc:Post individuals that can be accessed via XPath as //sioc:Forum/sioc:container_of/sioc:Post

Information on a specific user is available via a user query such as:

http://blog.3kbo.com/?sioc_type=user&sioc_id=2

Information on a specific post is available  via a post query such as:

http://blog.3kbo.com/?sioc_type=post&sioc_id=3