Linked Data on the Web 2010 presentation on the TwitLogic streaming Semantic Web framework.

1. Joshua Shinavier
Real-time #SemanticWeb in <= 140 chars
Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010)
April 27th, 2010

2. Structured data from microblogs
• Semantic Web
• typically published in large chunks
• relatively static
• microblogs
• published in tiny chunks
• 600+ per second
• is any of this data useful?
• what can we capture?
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3. Data about people
sioc:UserAccount
@joshsh
sioc:account_of
sioc:UserAccount
@shangz
foaf:Agent
Joshua Shinavier
sioc:account_of
foaf:knows
foaf:Agent
•
Zhenning Shangguan
users and accounts
• use FOAF and SIOC
• e.g. SemanticTweet (Flinter)
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4. Data about tweets
sioct:MicroblogPost
"At #ldow2010 (part of #www2010) ..."
sioc:has_creator
sioc:has_container
sioc:UserAccount
@joshsh
sioct:Microblog
@joshsh's Twitter timeline
• blogs and posts
• use SIOC and SIOC Types
• e.g. SMOB (Passant et al.)
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5. What about data in a tweet?
sioct:MicroblogPost
"At #ldow2010 (part of #www2010) ..."
sioc:embeds_knowledge
#ldow2010 pmlr:partOf #www2010
• nanotations: structured information in microblog
posts
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6. TwitLogic
• capture microblog data...
• ...including nanotations
• translate it into RDF
• produce an RDF stream
• ... and expose it as Linked Data
• search and query in real time
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7. TwitLogic architecture
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8. For example...
#sioclog (see http://bit.ly/2uAWo2) makes
Linked Data from IRC logs.
Who would have guessed such a funny movie as
#ZombieLand (3/4) could be made around zombies?
#websci2010 (= #websci10) is all atwitter with
presentations containing the word "tweet".
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9. A demo
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10. More details
• semantic nanoformats
• publication and data ownership
• implementation
• real-time, real-place semantic search
• future work:
• continuous queries
• Twitter Annotations
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11. Questions...
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12. Links
• TwitLogic
• http://twitlogic.fortytwo.net
• Tetherless World
• http://tw.rpi.edu
• Franz Inc.
• http://www.franz.com
• Contact
• josh@fortytwo.net
• @joshsh
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