Introducing MOAT

I’m happy to announce the MOAT project:

MOAT (Meaning Of A Tag) provides a Semantic Web framework to publish semantically-annotated content from free-tagging.

While tags are widely used in Web 2.0 services, their lack of machine-understandable meaning can be a problem for information retrieval, especially when people use tags that can have different meanings depending on the context.

MOAT aims to solve this by providing a way for users to define meaning(s) of their tag(s) using URIs of Semantic Web resources (such as URIs from dbpedia, geonames … or any knowledge base), and then annotate content with those URIs rather than free-text tags, leveraging content into Semantic Web, by linking data together. Moreover, tag meanings can be shared between people, providing an architecture of participation to define and exchange potential meanings of tags within a community of users.

To achieve this goal, MOAT relies on an architecture that can be deployed for any organisation or community and that involves a lightweight ontology, a MOAT server, and some third-party clients .

More details about the framework and its implementation are described on the project website. A demo server is available here, and updates should be done soon (code and documentation).

January 19, 2008 | Filed Under Semantic Web |  

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7 Responses to “Introducing MOAT”

  1. Pages tagged "understandable" on January 20th, 2008 4:00 pm

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  2. http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/index.en.html homepage on January 21st, 2008 11:29 am

    This reminds me of some work I did while at Opera. My idea was also to marry folksonomies and taxonomies. I did get started, but not very far. What I did is documented in the Semantic Web blog on the Opera Community: http://my.opera.com/semweb/blog/

  3. http://geocities.com/rmarkwhite/ homepage on January 23rd, 2008 5:39 am

    is there any way to make this service web accessible? I would love to use it but do not use *nix so no clients are available to me. I would gladly cut and paste to a web page to access these services.

  4. Alex on January 30th, 2008 11:04 pm

    Mark> Have a look at the server page of the MOAT website. There is a list of the API calls to retrieve / update a server. You can try it with the dev server or install your own.

  5. Mitko Iliev on February 12th, 2008 5:48 pm

    Please could you check why http://tags.moat-project.org/tag/paris/json/light returns bad JSON ? Some php warnings are sent back at present :-(

  6. Alex on February 13th, 2008 11:48 am

    Fixed. Some mysql tables were broken, it works now after a mysql_check -r

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