SiocLog: Providing IRC Discussion Logs as Linked Data
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The document discusses the integration of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) as linked data, highlighting the challenges of disconnect between IRC conversations and the wider web. It introduces the SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) framework to interlink social media contributions, enabling the association of IRC messages with people and topics through Web IDs. The project findings include the implementation of an IRC discussion logger, data analysis, and integration components, aimed at enhancing the accessibility and interoperability of IRC data.
![Creating a link between a user account on IRC and a personal profile Claiming a Web ID creates a link [black] between a user account (a sioc:User that created a sioc:Post in a sioct:ChatChannel) and a person (foaf:Person) The person can manually verify this: By pointing back to the sioc:User from their foaf:Person definition [grey]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/20091025bwashingtondcsdow2009-091026161714-phpapp01/85/SiocLog-Providing-IRC-Discussion-Logs-as-Linked-Data-16-320.jpg)
SiocLog: Providing IRC Discussion Logs as Linked Data
- 1. SiocLog: Providing IRC Discussion Logs as Linked Data Tuukka Hastrup 1 , Uldis Bojars 2 and John G. Breslin 2, 3 1 University of Jyväskylä, Finland 2 DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland 3 School of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway, Ireland
- 2. Motivation IRC conversations are quite disconnected from the Web and even from other IRC channels and networks Often there is valuable and needed information in an IRC chat that cannot be linked to people, topics or events, or in general referenced from elsewhere This may be useful to people who do not use IRC, by those on other networks, or simply by people who leave and rejoin a channel
- 3. Motivation (2) SIOC provides a framework for linking social media contributions to other content and Linked Data resources, and IRC can become part of that framework We also need mechanisms to link the IRC contributions to the people who made them, hence the use of Web ID
- 4. Background We will begin by introducing the various areas relevant to this system: IRC Linked Data SIOC Web ID
- 5. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Instant messaging / internet chat is a major form of social interaction online It is often disconnected from the Web: Due to the different protocols involved Due to its real-time nature / lack of persistent storage IRC was one of the earliest chat systems It has an important role amongst open-source communities, web communities, and even geeks! Hundreds of thousands of users online at any time
- 6. Linked Data Building a “Web of Data” to enhance the current Web Exposing, sharing and connecting data about things via dereferenceable URIs Linking datasets together that were not previously connected, for example: Music and people Real-world things and places The Linking Open Data (LOD) effort aims to link various open datasets together (DBpedia, GeoNames, etc.)
- 7. Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) An effort from DERI, NUI Galway to discover how we can create / establish ontologies on the Semantic Web Goal of the SIOC ontology is to address interoperability issues on the (Social) Web http://sioc-project.org/ SIOC has been adopted in a framework of 50 applications or modules deployed on over 400 sites Various domains: Web 2.0, enterprise information integration, HCLS, e-government
- 9. Some of the SIOC core ontology classes and properties
- 10. Some examples of where SIOC is already use (about 50 implementations / applications)
- 11. Web ID A Web ID is a web address that identifies a person as a Linked Data item A Web ID should also lead to a document with more information about that person (e.g. FOAF, other RDF) For more information, see the definition in this paper: Ching-Man Au Yeung, Ilaria Liccardi, Kanghao Lu, Oshani Seneviratne, Tim Berners-Lee, “ Decentralization: The Future of Online Social Networking ”, W3C Workshop on Future of Social Networking
- 12. Design
- 13. Mapping IRC identifiers to URIs on the Web irc://freenode (IRC Network) irc://freenode/%23 channel (Channel) No identifier (Message) irc://freenode/ persona ,isuser (Chat Persona) http://irc.sioc-project.org/#freenode http://irc.sioc-project.org/ channel #channel http://irc.sioc-project.org/ channel /0000-00-00 #00:00:00.00 http://irc.sioc-project.org/users/ persona #user
- 14. Some of the internal and external links
- 15. Browsing the Linked Data
- 16. Creating a link between a user account on IRC and a personal profile Claiming a Web ID creates a link [black] between a user account (a sioc:User that created a sioc:Post in a sioct:ChatChannel) and a person (foaf:Person) The person can manually verify this: By pointing back to the sioc:User from their foaf:Person definition [grey]
- 17. Web IDs in SiocLog A Web ID can be claimed using mttlbot Can claim using standard IRC services /msg nickserv set property webid SomeWebID
- 18. Implementation 2000 lines of Python source code 1000 lines of Zope/TAL HTML templates Twisted, SimpleTAL and Redland libraries Four major components: IRC interface, data analysis, data integration, Web
- 19. Implementation (2) IRC interface: Discussion logger / persona monitor on Twisted Data analysis: Process logs, a filters pipeline, sinks for stats / output Data integration: Queries for external Linked Data (personal profiles) Web interface: Requests via CGI, publishes as HTML and RDF
- 20. Finding the names of friends of an IRC persona with SPARQL semwebquery –sparql "SELECT ?name WHERE { ?person foaf:holdsAccount <http://irc.sioc-project.org/users/melvster#user> . ?person foaf:knows ?friend . ?friend foaf:name ?name . }"
- 21. Validation 291 chat personas on five channels 22,418 chat messages 51 chat personas have associated Web IDs claimed using mttlbot (2/3) or nickserv (1/3) 44 of those have a valid associated RDF document Scalable (projected 4 million triples in 10 years) SiocLog data being consumed by the “Towards linked sensor data for Hackystat” project SiocLog interfaces to FOAF Me for new profile creation
- 22. Future work Extend to instant messaging and private messaging Study of IRC communities where users and content are distributed across channels and networks
- 23. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Science Foundation Ireland for their support under grant SFI/08/CE/I1380 (Líon 2) Thanks also to Benja Fallenstein and Dan Brickley for their insights
- 24. Summary IRC conversations are quite disconnected from the Web and even from other IRC channels and networks Often there is valuable and needed information in an IRC chat that cannot be linked to people, topics or events, or in general referenced from elsewhere SIOC provides a framework for interlinking social media to other content and Linked Data, and IRC has been integrated as a part of that framework We also used mechanisms to link IRC contributions to the people who made them via Web ID and FOAF