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WordPress Updated

[GNU] — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:50:10 +0000

I just started to upgrade my wodpress release to the current 2.7 version. This is just a short note, it’s writing was supported by Firefox‘s Zemanta plugin. Thanks

WordPress plugin to post to identi.ca on newly published posts

[GNU] — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:35:21 +0000

… and this seems to be the first plugin to link WordPress to identi.ca

here we go…

[GNU] — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:45:52 +0000

with a new wordpress release and a sign of life! I am here.

seeAlso for SIOC hooked in page via RDFa

[GNU] — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:06:24 +0000

Providing links to SIOC data generated by a site may be done using a auto-discovery links. Embedding RDF in XHTML using the upcoming RDFa standard may be another way to link to SIOC data.

After a few discussions with CaptSolo and with some help from EliasT I have tweaked my WordPress to include the needed RDFa. Looking at the source of this page you will see something like:


 
  
  application/rdf+xml

To enabled correct parsing and XML Namespace assignment by a RDFa parser the element must contain namespace declarations for rdf, rdfs, dc and sioc.

Using some RDFa extractor service on any page on B:\datenbrei will give you a RDF file containing a rdfs:seeAlso (of type application/rdf+xml) which points to the RDF generated by the WordPress SIOC plugin for the corresponding page.

Next step: write a short XSLT to enable GRDDLing the same rdfs:seeAlso out of the post’s page.

Design and Software migration: done.

[GNU] — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:36:34 +0000

As you may have experienced the site design has change a little bit: back to basics and back to #B4mad! In parallel I have updated the software, it’s WordPress 2.0.2 now. The real sad thing is that foaf-output plugin does not work any longer, as it is not compatibel with the current wordpress version.

SIOC plugin has been update to the current version, links from rss1:Channel to sioc:site and rss1:item to sioc:Post have been added to the RDF feed.

SIOC enabling a community site

[GNU] — Mon, 22 May 2006 20:15:27 +0000

After installing the SIOC WordPress plugin this site is enabled to provide SIOC data for the site itself, users and all articles on B:\datenbrei. Many site on the internet don’t provide SIOC data, this is mainly due to the fact that SIOC development is still at an early stage. But what about Planets? Do they provide SIOC data? So let’s have a look at Planet RDF and how it may be enabled to provide SIOC data.

Planet RDF provides a foafroll, a RDF/XML representation of the feeds which get aggregated and their authors. This is a good starting point and actually a pretty complete description of the RDF community (at least of the blogging RDF community).

Taking a look at foafroll we find foaf:Agents and there blogs. This provided data will be convertet into SIOC Users in the first step.


 FOAF Project
 
  
   FOAF Project

I would like to propose a mapping like this:

 
  FOAF Project

Next step is to set up a sioc:Usergroup containing all members (foaf:Agents) of the foafroll:

 
  Authors at PlanetRDF.com

Interpreting sioc:Site as “This is a Community” and not as “This is one Site of others of a Community” one must interpret Planet RDF as a Forum of the community/Site:


 PlanetRDF.com, part of the RDF Community
 
 



 The RDF Community
 Planet of the RDF Community

Note: Maybe it would make some sense to rename sioc:Site to sioc:Community? See also a SIOC-dev posting (or was it a chat with CaptSolo??).

I have not done some Jena-based code up until now. Before releasing it I would like to have some comments on the idea, maybe some improvements need to be incorporated…

A complete example of a SIOC-from-foafroll (handcrafted) and some coffee is available too.

a Category for reminders

[GNU] — Thu, 11 May 2006 06:34:50 +0000

Reading Dave Backett‘s RSS to iCalendar article I wonder what it is good for having a ICS file that is generated out of a RSS feed…

Loading the PlanetRDF ICS file into Apple’s iCal gives me a neat amount of new calendar entries, all in the past: iCal as RSS aggregator!

So, what is it good for? Maybe for easy reminders: using a category “reminders” (or whatever it’s name may be) and posting to that with post dates in the future, picking up that category’s RSS feed (post wouldn’t show up there by default) and convert it to an ICS file which is read in by a calendaring application. This is a way to have something like “group reminders”

Any other ideas?

SIOC has done a step forward

[GNU] — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:52:44 +0000

Later the night two days ago I received a mail from Uldis Bojars (CaptSolo), he pingt me regarding the release of 1.12 version of a SIOC WordPress plugin.

After installing and activating the plugin it simply works as expected… Noting more to say: SIOC rocks!

Harry Chen Thinks Aloud: 3 Reasons Why WordPress Should Not Drop RSS 1.0

[GNU] — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:20:07 +0000

Harry Chen Thinks Aloud: 3 Reasons Why WordPress Should Not Drop RSS 1.0:

Dropping RSS 1.0 (RDF) from WordPress will discourage developers from using WordPress as a platform for building the next generation Semantic Web applications.

Very true, droping RSS1.0 support is no option!!

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WordPress About: Features

[GNU] — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:28:51 +0000

WordPress About: Features:

XML-RPC interface — WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API.

There seems to be a problem using ecto and the MT API to communicate with the blog if the google sidemap plugins is enabeld… need to check.

fernando_graphicos: Adding Audio

[GNU] — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:05:53 +0000

fernando_graphicos – Document – Adding Audio:

If you are interested in audio journaling, check the original post for more on what’s involved.

Getting back into the SemWeb Universe

[GNU] — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:09:06 +0000

Beeing three weeks off and offline means: lots to read and crosscheck. The first thing that came to my attention is captsolo‘s advice on how to do the right thing: Generate SIOC! done! B:\datenbrei now provides SIOC info via a WordPress plugin.

captsolos second thing to do is: Use PiggyBank! But I’m a MacOSX and Safari user?! What now?

Next thing on my list is to read the link list of John Breslin regarding ISWC 2005.

What SIOC is?
SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) is an ontology for describing discussion forums and posts on topic threads in online community sites. This includes but is not limited to: blogs, bulletin boards, mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.

What Piggy Bank is?
Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox Web browser that turns it into a â€œSemantic Web browserâ€, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible ways.

Atom 1.0 here we go

[GNU] — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:41:11 +0000

Ok, this is consistent point of view… Peter Saint-Andre (a.k.a. “stpeter”) made the statement that

… I now consider RSS to be a legacy format.

so will I and reconfigured feedburner to only deliver Atom 1.0, no more smartfeed no more RSS 2.0

I also modified the local wp-atom.php to output valid Atom 1.0 feed of B:\datenbrei. Next thing I will do is to incorporate geo: namespace to my Atom feed.

blog enhancements

[GNU] — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:13:45 +0000

Today I enhanced the blog a little. I added two WordPress plugins. The first plugin uses to display a “bookmark this on del.icio.us” link at the bottom of each posting, it’s called http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/21/delicious-bookmark-this-wordpress-plugin. The second plugin will fetch all my newley added del.ico.us bookmarks and will put them in a post here on the blog, kind of del.icio.us aggragator, it’s name: Daily Delicious. I have choosen Daily Delicious over all the other daily delicious plugins because it uses the delicious API to pick up the links rather than using the rss feed and parse that to get the new links.

Was machen die Anderen denn da?!

[GNU] — Mon, 30 May 2005 19:18:15 +0000

Der Hild hat mal ein WordPress installiert und versucht sich im bloggen… bin mal gespannt wie lange er das durchhÃ¤lt. Zufinden sind seine Texte auf urandom.de

auto del.icio.us linking

[GNU] — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:44:09 +0000

I’ve been kind of busy last few days with CeBit and other stuff… so to get back into blogging: here is a little enhancment I’ve added to the local WordPress installation: del.icio.us Smart Taging Plugin. I’m sure all of you figure out what it’s doing.

WordPress 1.5 (local installtion) and Trackbacks are broken

[GNU] — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:11:45 +0000

Right now the trackbacks seem to be broken on my WordPress 1.5 installation at http://B4mad.Net/datenbrei/

So after some reading if found the solution… where has all the quality assurance gone?! So I am going to patch to a pretty mix of 1.5 and 1.5.1

Maybe a pingback on this works too

Preparing the Move towards WordPress 1.5

[GNU] — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:05:15 +0000

Last night I started testing the migration to WordPress 1.5 by recycling the “WordPress Default” presentation templates to reflect the #B4mad.Net style (first step). Next step was to integrate all the plugins needed to make WordPress a better semantic web publishing plattform:

Geo 1.0Î± plugin is WORKING
FOAF Output 1.16RC is WORKING
FOAF Output seeAlso’s 1.1 is WORKING
FOAF Output Semantic Visits 1.2 is WORKING
Kitten’s Spaminator 1.0rc7 seems to be WORKING but not tested with real world spammers

The third step was a test upgrade of the database, all went ok with the wp-admin/upgrade.php, even the enclosures have been preserved. Afterwards I replaced wp-rdf.php with my own enhanced version.

It looks like everything is prepared to move to WordPress 1.5, some little design work to do on the new templates left…

I can do trips, visualize me!

[GNU] — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:01:21 +0000

After fiddeling arround with the items in the Travel Category I have finally a RDF representation (still as a RSS 1.0 feed) of a trip from London to Cologne. Ok, the final photo of Cologne Airport is missing…

If you take a look at the feed itself it contains all data that are required to reconstruct the trip: geo position of each item, date and time, item’s maker, etc.

So the next cool thing to do with the data is an alternative visualization, something like a Flash (or any other interactive technology). I imagine some city map of London and a slider to scroll back and forward in time having photos or little html fragments pop up at the geo position of the item if the slider gets near by the occurence of an item.

Anybody seen a prototyp of such a thing?

feeds unlimited.

[GNU] — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:09:17 +0000

While doing some maintenance work on B:datenbrei feeds I discovered that FeedBurner has a feed size limit for 250K and that feed validator has a limit of 200k for the feeds to be read in. This is disturbing my strategy to publish all items to the feed. So I need to implement a “what’s new” feed and a “archive feed” for WordPress.

FeedBurner

[GNU] — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:42:52 +0000

Today I updated the blog to use FeedBurner. What is nice about FeedBurner is, that they preserve the RDF Enclosure stuff in feedburned RDF feed.

More WordPress features…

[GNU] — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:31:05 +0000

After some surfing I finally had all the stuff together to implement a new feature: a ical stream with upcomming events.

First of all I got rss2ical installed. To make it work I also modified wp-rdf.php to generate dc:date values as needed by rss2ical.

Next step was to establish a new category and modify wp-blog-header.php to output postings that have postdate in the future. I got that trick from the WordPress Support.

So, that’s it… here is the ical stream of upcomming #B4mad.Net events.

blogtimes…

[GNU] — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:43:43 +0000

this is it… a new plugin a new funny feature.

I have installed BlogTimes, this will give me the nice picture you see somewhere on the page. erm… here it is: .

WordPress enclosures (and rss1.0 feed extension)

[GNU] — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:47:51 +0000

Following the instructions and using the code iPieter posted on his blog I added support for enclosures per post to my WordPress 1.2 installation. After that I moved the code he added to wp-rss.php to the already modified wp-rdf.php (get it here and find it enclosured in the rss 1.0 feed) and got a enclosure enabled RSS 1.0 feed.

Ready for podcasting!!

BTW, why dont the most (maybe all podcasting aggregators like iPodder) not understand RSS 1.0?!

managing information about locations

[GNU] — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:56:17 +0000

… or is this called locative information? Anyway, the problem that I would like to solve is, to manage information about meeting facilities, where they are, what is available at the facility etc. This information should be reusable in other applications, which means the information should be represented by RDF/XML, most pragmatic approach is the implement the whole system as a WordPress extension (plugin, whatever).

Based on the GeoInfo Wiki a short review of RDF vocabularies available for describing Locations has lead to some ressources:

Recommended Vocabularies for Locative Packets
to get a grip on the equipment available at the location we could use the Wirless Vocabulary
Some very good examples give an impression of how the RDF/XML data could look like
Transportation Information to and from the meeting location should also be managed, including the nearest airport information
using all this data and the travel itinerary ontology meeting attendee could document their travels

Other useful information could be in the SWAD-Europe Deliverable 3.9. Some information was provided by CaptSolo :)

My first WordPress Plugin

[GNU] — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:49:06 +0000

Nothing special… but I moved the customization which shows my Jabber Online Status using edgar from an dirty old index.php hack to a plugin which adds a filter to the_author_posts_link() (which itself needs to be hacked because it doesnt allow filters by default). The source of my plugin needs a short modification to wp-includes/template-functions-author.php: make the function the_author_posts_link() read like this:
function the_author_posts_link($idmode='') { global $id, $authordata; echo apply_filters('the_author_posts_link', '' . stripslashes(the_author($idmode, false)) . ''); }

So… have fun…

The usual updates…

[GNU] — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:24:50 +0000

This morning I installed the usual updates for WordPress, which included:

The 1.11 version of mortenf’s FOAF Output Plugin, which also includes an “SKOS export” of the categories I used for this blog.
The seeAlso Plugin
And my additions to include the Jabber ID into the Author’s profile

But what I really wonder about it the title=”skos:related anyURL” part of some anchors in mortens html code…