(pronounced "shock") Short for Semantically Interlinked Online
Communities SIOC is a project that proposes a method for
interconnecting blogs, forums and mailing lists to each other on the
Semantic Web. SIOC started with the
development of the SIOC core ontology,
which is used to describe the domain of online communities and what they consist
of — users and posts and descriptions of other simple terms that occur in
online communities. This structure that is created in online communities is
often hidden in some database behind the scenes, and SIOC is used to expose that
structure using semantics.
Semantic Web The voice of Semantic Web technology.
SIOC-ing the Semantic Web DERI's John Breslin talks with SemanticWeb.com about SIOC, the Semantically Interlinked Online Communities project.
sioc-project.org The acronym SIOC came into use during April 2004 for a workshop paper draft (see origins of SIOC). It also corresponds to sioc (the Irish word for frost) and was inspired by a sister social networking project called sneachta (the Irish word for snow).
Webopedia's "Did You Know... What Is The Semantic Web?" Today people may talk about the World Wide Web, Web 2.0 or the Semantic Web. There are a lot of misconceptions about their similarities and differences, and also where the technologies inherent to each overlap, if they overlap at all. The biggest misconception is that the terms Semantic Web and Web 2.0 mean the same thing.
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