TwitLogic: real-time #SemanticWeb in <= 140 chars
Instant publication, coupled with the prospect of widespread geotagging in microblogs, 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 sure to be both challenged and enhanced by real-time
content. TwitLogic is a semantic data aggregator which brings together a collection of compact formats for
structured microblog content with Semantic Web vocabularies and best practices in order to augment the
Semantic Web with real-time, user-driven data.
This Web interface is a work in progress. For now, you can browse
the knowledge base via Zitgist. Or if you're feeling adventurous, you can explore knowledge base with curl, like so:
curl -L -H "Accept: application/x-trig" http://twitlogic.fortytwo.net/hashtag/sdow2009Unlike the Zitgist view, this gives you access to the raw RDF quads data, allowing you to follow the nanotation provenance trail.
See also:
- A paper on TwitLogic
- Currently supported syntax conventions
- The implementation source code
Also see also:
- The Twitter Data initiative
- microblogging nanoformats
- Twitter's Streaming API
