SIOC/Data/Boards.ie
New data location
The data is still available for research purposes. Request access to the Google Drive folder below, and read/sign/return the "Conditions of Use for the boards.ie SIOC Datasets" file.
New start date
We apologise for the one-month delay in beginning this competition. Interested parties can now signup to participate in the competition. In the last week of August, we will ring to verify details and then we will be enabling user accounts after that. The data sets will be available for download from the 1st September 2008.
Welcome
Welcome to the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition! This is a competition in which entrants must do something interesting with the boards.ie SIOC Data Set (e.g. create a web application, write a report on analyses of the data, build a tool to visualise the information, etc.). Read the rules.
- Signup for the competition
- Entering the competition
- Rules for the competition and data use
- Downloading the data
- What does this data look like?
- Mappings between boards.ie and DBpedia
- Contact us for more information (IRC and mailing list)
Other services to access this data(not available yet)- What is SIOC? (Wikipedia)
- The SIOC project
Overview of the data
Ten years of discussions from the Irish forum site boards.ie are available in SIOC format at the download page. The top-level site document links to users (and to FOAF files) as well as to top-level forums. Forums link to subforums and threads, which finally link to individual posts. The posts link to each other based on replying and quoting. The FOAF files also link to each other, describing a social network based on the users' buddy lists.
The data in total (over 10 years) is around 9 million documents and takes about 50 gigabytes of disk space, so we have sliced it into smaller archives. The first slices available are all of the data for the year 1998, the site, forums, users and FOAF documents - all in RDF/XML file format. More information on the structure is available.