This demo is based on TwitLogic, an aggregating service capable of collecting user-contributed semantic nanotations from Twitter. By presenting a user interface that combines faceted navigation and real-time Twitter streams, we demonstrate how the potential of the embeded semantic data within tweets can be exploited to facilitate better search and navigation of real-time contents.
Trying out this demo is amazingly simple! First, spend two minutes going through the Syntax Convention defined by TwitLogic. Then, open up your favorite Twitter client to write down whatever you want to say about this WWW 2010 conference, or about any subevents of it. As a LOD enthusiast, you might want to tweet about this LDOW workshop:
#LDOW2010 (part of #www2010) is about to start, expecting a bunch of great presentations!You migt also want to tweet about a particular talk:
Next will be @joshsh talking about #TwitLogic (see http://bit.ly/aOnQb7). #ldow10 (ie #ldow2010)TwitLogic understands your tweet, extracts the embeded structured data, processes them to generate RDF streams and finally, your tweets appear in our demo, becoming part of the real-time view of the LDOW workshop!
We really hope you will like this demo and furthermore share with us your thoughts on it and on TwitLogic in general. We also look forward to the uptake and viral effect of user-contributed structured data in Twitter from a broad user community. Let's make it happen!