Murray Woodman

It’s with much pride and relief that I can announce that Uriverse, a site I have been working on for a few months, has been launched on the web. Uriverse is a site which aggregates content around certain well known subjects, namely the subjects found in Wikipedia. I have imported version 3.4 of the DBpedia data set (semantic version of Wikipedia) into the Drupal content management system. I have then attempted to present the data in an interesting way: faceted search, timelines, ratings, maps, photos, etc. If you are interested in how it was done please read the case study. There a fan page set up at Facebook too if you are interested. Cool, that’s stage one. Future iterations will incorporate more content from external sources into each of the pages. Enjoy.

I have been interested in RDF and Topic Maps for a while so I thought that it would be interesting to see how some of the concepts in these specifications could translate across to WordPress. I had recently moved my topicmap.com site across to WordPress and was wanting to wring some more semantic goodness out of the standard install. Specifically, I wanted to add metadata which could be linked. more…