Uldis Bojārs

DERI Galway

Uldis Boj?rs is a Semantic Web and Social Media researcher and a PhD student at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Galway. He is a member of ACM and an organiser of the WebCamp on Social Network Portability.

His work focuses on the SIOC project (pron. “shock”) which aims to express information about the structure and content of online community sites in a interoperable form. Uldis is one of the editors of the W3C member submission of SIOC and the author of the Semantic Radar extension for Firefox and various tools for the SIOC project. He has experience presenting Semantic Web and SIOC to both academic and web developer audiences.

Uldis received his M.Sc. degree from the University of Latvia in 2002, with master thesis on expressing data from persons’ resumes on the Semantic Web.

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9:00 Friday, 9 May 2008

Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF

Open data, Social networks Goldsmiths 2

Uldis Bojārs (DERI Galway), John Breslin (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway), Alexandre Passant (LaLIC institute (at Université Paris Sorbonne) and Electricité de France R&D)

Data portability has become an important requirement on the Social Web. We demonstrate how data and social network portability can be achieved by building upon existing Semantic Web developments such as SIOC and FOAF. SIOC provides a common format for expressing user-generated content and tools for import/export of this information. FOAF provides a way to link users' social networks. Read more.