Introduction to the project "Standardized Blog Entry" back
This project tries to combine two trends in web publishing for which is it probably not so apparent to combine them: on the one hand the overwhelming popularity of blogging, on the other hand the attempts towards standardized content. Structuring content in such a manner is a means in order to make it understandable by machines which would e.g. support the development of a semantic web. Hence, I have drafted a standardized blog entry. Early approaches in this regard can be traced back to On Kawara's "I got up" and "I went" projects [1] which have been integrated in this standardized blog entry. The blogging tool "livejournal" provides only two standardized fields, "current mood" and "current music" [2] (since it is obviously not the intention of "livejournal" to standardize) of which the ladder has been integrated here as well. The descriptive output of the standardized blog entry in a XML kind of format, e.g. Atom [3], could also be considered as byproduct of foaf/doac [4], [5], see annex. Another view would be to see standardized blog entries as an dynamic advancement of a foaf/doac profile along another dimension, which is the timeline. For approaches on semantic blogging which explore whether a semantic structure of (unstructured) blogs can be captured and exploited, see e.g. [6]. This is the first version of a standardized blog entry, refinements are likely to follow.Soenke Ziesche, October 2005 back
Annex
Example for a standardized blog entry in a XML kind of format
<foaf: Person>
<foaf: name> Soenke Ziesche </foaf:
name>
<sbe: date>
<sbe: day>20</sbe:
day>
<sbe:
month>Oct</sbe: month>
<sbe:
year>2005</sbe: year>
<sbe: got_up>
<sbe: hour>7</sbe:
hour>
<sbe: minute>10
</sbe: minute>
<sbe: ampm>am</sbe:
ampm>
<sbe:
location>Colombo, Sri Lanka</sbe: location>
</sbe: got_up>
<sbe: breakfast>cereals</sbe: breakfast>
<sbe: clothes>
<sbe:
colour>blue</sbe: colour>
<sbe:
garment>shirt</sbe: garment>
</sbe: clothes>
<sbe: clothes>
<sbe:
colour>grey</sbe: colour>
<sbe:
garment>pants</sbe: garment>
</sbe: clothes>
<sbe: communication>
<sbe:
partner>colleagues</sbe: partner>
<sbe:
means_of_communication>real life</sbe: means_of_communication>
</sbe: communication>
<sbe: communication>
<sbe:
partner>parents</sbe: partner>
<sbe:
means_of_communication>phone, e-mail</sbe:
means_of_communication>
</sbe: communication>
<sbe: communication>
<sbe:
partner>sister</sbe: partner>
<sbe:
means_of_communication>e-mail</sbe: means_of_communication>
</sbe: communication>
<sbe: communication>
<sbe:
partner>Nicole</sbe: partner>
<sbe:
means_of_communication>phone, e-mail</sbe:
means_of_communication>
</sbe: communication>
<sbe: 1st_snack>vadai</sbe: 1st_snack>
<sbe: movements>
<sbe:
destination>office</sbe: destination>
<sbe:
means_of_transportation>taxi</sbe: means_of_transportation>
</sbe: movements>
<sbe: movements>
<sbe:
destination>bistro latino</sbe: destination>
<sbe:
means_of_transportation>car</sbe: means_of_transportation>
</sbe: movements>
<sbe: lunch>rice and curry</sbe: lunch>
<sbe: memes>
<sbe:
meme>http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,379917,00.html</sbe:
meme>
<sbe:
medium>web/blog</sbe: medium>
</sbe: memes>
<sbe: memes>
<sbe:
meme>http://zeus.zeit.de/text/2005/35/C-Humannetz</sbe: meme>
<sbe:
medium>web/blog</sbe: medium>
</sbe: memes>
<sbe: memes>
<sbe: meme>"In the
Miso Soup"</sbe: meme>
<sbe:
medium>book</sbe: medium>
</sbe: memes>
<sbe: 2nd_snack>piece of cake</sbe: 2nd_snack>
<sbe: purchases>
<sbe: product>running
shoes</sbe: product>
<sbe: shop>House of
Fashion</sbe: shop>
</sbe: purchases>
<sbe: purchases>
<sbe: product>bag for
Roshika</sbe: product>
<sbe:
shop>Odel</sbe: shop>
</sbe: purchases>
<sbe: sport>28 minutes jogging</sbe: sport>
<sbe: dinner>tapas</sbe: dinner>
<sbe:
went_to_bed>
<sbe: hour>12</sbe:
hour>
<sbe:
minute>45</sbe: minute>
<sbe: ampm>am</sbe:
ampm>
<sbe:
location>Colombo</sbe: location>
</sbe: went_to_bed>
</sbe: date>
</foaf: Person>