TwitLogic: real-time #SemanticWeb in <= 140 chars
Instant publication, together with the rise of geosocial networking, presents new opportunities for real-time
and location-based services. Much as these services are changing the nature of search on the World Wide Web, so
the Semantic Web is both challenged and enhanced by real-time
content. TwitLogic is a tool for data integration which translates streaming social data using common, RDF-based
vocabularies and mashes it up
with Linked Data, enabling new kinds of real-time social applications which take advantage of the rich
background knowledge of the Semantic Web.
One upcoming source of rich structured social data for mashups is Twitter Annotations. Here is a
slide show which illustrates potential use cases of Annotations for "smart" real-time content
feeds:
You can interact with TwitLogic through a
SPARQL endpoint (e.g. the one for this triple store)
or an RDF update stream.
TwitLogic also publishes the social data it collects as Linked Data. For now, you can browse
the knowledge base in Zitgist. Or if you're feeling adventurous, you can explore the knowledge base
with
curl, like so:
curl -L -H "Accept: application/x-trig" http://twitlogic.fortytwo.net/hashtag/sdow2009This gives you access to additional Named Graph information, allowing you to follow the annotation provenance trail.
New:
- SPARQL-based live search widget for ISWC 2010 conference tweets
See also:
- A paper on TwitLogic
- Currently supported syntax conventions
- The implementation source code and JavaDocs
- Configuring and running TwitLogic
- Coming soon (?): Semantic Twannotations
- TwitLogic in the news:
- ReadWriteWeb article: How Twitter Annotations could bring the real-time and Semantic Web together
- New Scientist article: Google, Twitter and Facebook build the Semantic Web
Also see also:
- The Twitter Data initiative
- microblogging nanoformats
- Twitter's Streaming API
