LForum - Linked Discussion Forums on the Web of Data

This page is the sandbox for the LForum - Linked Discussion Forums on the Web of Data project.

Introduction

Based on previous work (see mle, the mailing list explorer) we want to enable people to RDFise and interlink discussion forums, such as vBulletin, phpBB, pumBB. etc. The goal is to provide the interlinking software as a service for anyone to deploy the linked dataset on their own.

Ideas and Issues

the interlinking of online discussion forums shall be made available through a service
vocabularies: SIOC, FOAF, DC
interlink targets: http://dbpedia.org/, http://www.w3.org/TR/wordnet-rdf/, http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/flickrwrappr/
produce Linked Data from phpBB based discussion forums via RDBMS2RDF technologies e.g. Live Example of phpBB3 as Linked Data built using Virtuoso's RDF Views against the phpBB3 SQL Schema which is explained *here*.

Examples

Cars

http://ehotcars.com/forums/ is a discussion forum (using vBulletin); here is an example RDF/XML dump from the current RDFising and interlinking process.

Resources

Involved People

Please add yourself here in case you want to contribute (in terms of development, testing, etc.).

Michael Hausenblas
[[SelverSoftic|SelverSoftic] ]