Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 15th January 2009 | RSS | LINK

Few days ago I decided to write simple Wordpress Plugin, which annotates the content of the current page with RDFa and does not require to change the theme manually (except maybe the header.php).
First I thought the plugin will consist of few filter functions which filter the current theme and enrich some template tags (such as [...]

Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 12th January 2009 | RSS | LINK

I will quickly try to summarize the state of my work for my supervision meeting today.

Done:
*) Identified and described Data Portability problems in the Social Web –> argued that Semantic Web Technologies provide the required mechanisms to overcome the identified limitations
*) Developed Use Cases and derived requirements
*) Checked if existing Portability Tools can answer my [...]

Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 09th January 2009 | RSS | LINK

I just read this interesting Blog Posting from Uldis, in which he talks about automatically creating connections between a HTML page and its associated external RDF file via RDFa. A lot of web sites expose their data via HTML sites and external RDF files, which are only connected via one link.
For example the HTML sites [...]

Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 04th January 2009 | RSS | LINK

In the current Social Web tools such as Zemanta Reblog, Share This, Reblog, Move My Data or Press This, allow users to reuse content across application boundaries, but have several limitations:
1.) Loosing semantic metadata and relations: The information about the relations, which connect
the resource to reuse with other resources stored on the source application [...]