phpBB 3 SIOC Reference

What is it about?

Unobtrusive generation of RDF instance data from phpBB 3. You simply use phpBB 3 as-is while reaping the benefit of "Linked Data Views" into your bulletin board data via the SIOC Ontology. In addition, you attain transparent integration between phpBB 3 and NNTP such that phpBB 3 data becomes accessible to NNTP aware applications.

Why is it important?

Unified Storage of heterogenous data originating from a variety of applications and associated protocols that is exposed as RDF instance data. Thus, benefits include:

• SPARQL access to phpBB 3 data via a SPARQL Endpoint
• Dereferenceable URIs (drill-down facilitating data pointers) for all data items (Entities) in the "Discussion Forum" / "Bulletin Board" domain (also referred to as Boardscape)
• Coherent exploitation of conceptual similarities between phpBB 3 and objects in the NNTP (Usenet / newsgroups) such as two-way interaction with common date via NNTP news-reader utilities or web-based discussion forum clients bound to phpBB 3 or NNTP.

How can one use this feature?

• Obtain an Open Source of Commercial Edition of Virtuoso ( enable PHP Hosting Support during installation)
• Install the virtuoso_phpbb_hosting_filesystem.vad package
• Go to http://:[port]/phpBB3
• Use phpBB 3 as per usual
• Query SPARQL Data via the endpoint: http://:[port]/phpBB3 using RDF Data Source URI (Named Graph): http://:[port]/phpbb_v (for Virtual Graphs) and http://:[port]/phpbb (for Physical Graphs)

What are the Linked Data Views supported?

• PHPBB3 rdf_views_script.sql or view the online version here.

Can I See This In Action Anywhere?

• Available demo you can find at the following location: http://demo.openlinksw.com/phpBB3/
• You can run the queries below or your own created ones using the Virtuoso SPARQL query page.
• For the database located at http://demo.openlinksw.com/phpBB3/, you should use the following graph(s) URI:
  • Virtual Graph URI: http://demo.openlinksw.com/phpBB3_v/
  • Physical Graph URI: http://demo.openlinksw.com/phpBB3/

Key phpBB 3 to SIOC Mappings

• Dump of all phpBB3 Forums
• Dump of all phpBB3 Posts
• Dump of phpBB3 Groups and their members
• Dump of phpBB 3 Users details

Reference

• phpBB 3 Linked Data Views
• phpBB 3 Installation Guide

See also

• ODS SIOC reference
• Query ODS Data Spaces using SPARQL and Atom OWL Ontology
• Query ODS Data Spaces using SPARQL and SKOS Ontology
• Query ODS Data Spaces using SPARQL and FOAF Ontology
• Query ODS Data Spaces using SPARQL and Annotea Ontology
• ODS SPARQL Samples
• Northwind SPARQL Reference
• Query Virtuoso Tutorials using SPARQL
• Query Virtuoso Documentation using SPARQL
• WordPress SIOC Reference
• MedaWiki SIOC Reference
• Drupal SIOC Reference

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