SWAML, pronounced [swæml], is a research project around the semantic web technologies to publish the mailing lists' archives into a RDF format. It has been developed by the CTIC Foundation and the WESO-RG at University of Oviedo (Spain). You can visit the project page at bibucket for more details.
SWAML reads a collection of email messages stored in a mailbox (from a mailing list compatible with RFC 4155) and generates a RDF description. It is written in Python using SIOC as the main ontology to represent in RDF a mailing list.
In the project we're involved:
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Sergio Fernández (maintainer)
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Diego Berrueta
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Jose E. Labra
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Iván Frade
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Nacho Barrientos (debian package)
Mainly it's formed by two components:
- SWAML, the core process that exports a mailing list in RDF.
- Buxon, a sioc:Forum browser.
And it has some features:
- platform independent (written in python)
- shell mode (to use manually or by cron script)
- compatible with RFC 4155
- serialize to disk in RDF/XML and XHTML+RDFa, using (optional) HTTP content negotiation
- reusability of ontologies already extended, mainly SIOC
- enrichment with FOAF using SWSE/Sindice as source of information
- KML support
- GTK browser (Buxon)
- free software under GPLv2 or later)
