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The goal of #tui is merge micro-blogging with the semantic web in real life applications.
This project looks to embed semantic information in web pages and then allow users to tweet their views / suggestions of the page so that other people can see what they are talking about. The messages have semantic data encoded in them so that machines and programs can easily pick out the relevant information and do with it what they wish. We have defined a #TUI format so that anyone can come along and parse all the #TUI messages and have access to all the data.
The goal of TUI is to use existing cloud services to store all the data - rather than implement new public databases. Free microblogging services such as Twitter offer us ways to store this data and have it publicly available.
At the same time - #tui defines an abbreviated version of turtle RDF - concise enough to be easy to create and to fit in a microblogging message.
== Project Description ==
In this project we want to investigate if we can use microblogging to transfer semantic information by formulating a syntax to add semantics to a microblogging message, modeled after the W3C standard RDF. With this syntax we will build a proof of concept system to organize collaborative annotation of a genome sequence. The proof of concept system will consist of two parts. The first part will be web browser plugin that generates semantic microblogging messages from a Generic Genome Browser (GBrowse) site.
The browser plugin will add a number of interface elements to any page ranging from buttons that send a (syntactically correct) message that a certain annotation is correct or incorrect to a more elaborate interface that allows detailed annotation of a genomic element. The second part of the proof of concept will harvest the semantic messages from the micro blogging provider and aggregate them in a Semantic Mediawiki (SMW) site.
More information at: Project Proposal.
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