A UserAccount that is a moderator of this Forum.
has moderator
An identifier of a SIOC concept instance. For example, a user ID. Must be unique for instances of each type of SIOC concept within the same site.
A set of UserAccounts whose owners have a common purpose or interest. Can be used for access control purposes.
Usergroup
A textual geekcode for this person, see http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html
An image or depiction used to represent this UserAccount.
avatar
Indicates that one UserAccount follows another UserAccount (e.g. for microblog posts or other content item updates).
follows
Links either created explicitly or extracted implicitly on the HTML level from the Post.
reference
First (real) name of this User. Synonyms include given name or christian name.
first name
This property is deprecated. Use foaf:name or foaf:firstName from the FOAF vocabulary instead.
Links to the next revision of this Item or Post.
next version
A Site can be the location of an online community or set of communities, with UserAccounts and Usergroups creating Items in a set of Containers. It can be thought of as a web-accessible data Space.
Site
The encoded content of the Post, contained in CDATA areas.
content encoded
This property is deprecated. Use content:encoded from the RSS 1.0 content module instead.
SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) is an ontology for describing the information in online communities. This information can be used to export information from online communities and to link them together. The scope of the application areas that SIOC can be used for includes (and is not limited to) weblogs, message boards, mailing lists and chat channels.
SIOC Core Ontology Namespace
Next Item or Post in a given Container sorted by date.
next by date
A Role is a function of a UserAccount within a scope of a particular Forum, Site, etc.
Role
A person known by this person (indicating some level of reciprocated interaction between the parties).
An electronic mail address of the UserAccount, encoded using SHA1.
email sha1
Refers to the foaf:Agent or foaf:Person who owns this sioc:UserAccount.
account of
A UserAccount that is an administrator of this Site.
has administrator
A Forum that is hosted on this Site.
host of
A UserAccount that this resource is owned by.
has owner
An article or message that can be posted to a Forum.
Post
The date and time of the last activity associated with a SIOC concept instance, and expressed in ISO 8601 format. This could be due to a reply Post or Comment, a modification to an Item, etc.
last activity date
When this was modified, in ISO 8601 format.
modified at
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:modified from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
Related Posts for this Post, perhaps determined implicitly from topics or references.
related to
An organization funding a project or person.
A UserAccount that is subscribed to this Container.
has subscriber
Indicates the name (identifier) associated with this online account.
Links to a later (newer) revision of this Item or Post.
later version
The graph associated with the subject is a subgraph of a graph equivalent to that associated with the object.
A string expressing what the user is happy for the general public (normally) to know about their current activity.
A checksum for the DNA of some thing. Joke.
An area in which content Items are contained.
Container
The URI of a file attached to an Item.
attachment
The number of unique authors (UserAccounts and unregistered posters) who have contributed to this Item, Thread, Post, etc.
num authors
The content of the Item in plain text format.
content
Keyword(s) describing subject of the Post.
subject
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:subject from the Dublin Core ontology for text keywords and sioc:topic if the subject can be represented by a URI instead.
A page about a topic of interest to this person.
A thing depicted in this representation.
Indicates an account held by this agent.
Points to an Item or Post that is a reply or response to this Item or Post.
has reply
A Usergroup that this UserAccount is a member of.
member of
A Myers Briggs (MBTI) personality classification.
This links Items to embedded statements, facts and structured content.
embeds knowledge
A homepage of a school attended by the person.
The Site that hosts this Forum.
has host
An electronic mail address of the UserAccount.
email
Links to the previous revision of this Item or Post.
previous version
A UserAccount that modified this Item.
has modifier
The content of the Post.
description
This property is deprecated. Use sioc:content or other methods (AtomOwl, content:encoded from RSS 1.0, etc.) instead.
A feed (e.g. RSS, Atom, etc.) pertaining to this resource (e.g. for a Forum, Site, UserAccount, etc.).
feed
A project (a collective endeavour of some kind).
A weblog of some thing (whether person, group, company etc.).
A Space is a place where data resides, e.g. on a website, desktop, fileshare, etc.
Space
A UserAccount that has this Role.
function of
A Role that this UserAccount has.
has function
Links to a previous (older) revision of this Item or Post.
earlier version
A phone, specified using fully qualified tel: URI scheme (refs: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html#tel).
A data Space which this resource is a part of.
has space
User
This class is deprecated. Use sioc:UserAccount from the SIOC ontology instead.
UserAccount is now preferred. This is a deprecated class for a User in an online community site.
The number of times this Item, Thread, UserAccount profile, etc. has been viewed.
num views
An resource that is a part of this subject.
has part
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:hasPart from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
A UserAccount that is a member of this Usergroup.
has member
A document that this thing is the primary topic of.
The number of replies that this Item, Thread, Post, etc. has. Useful for when the reply structure is absent.
num replies
A topic of interest, linking to the appropriate URI, e.g. in the Open Directory Project or of a SKOS category.
topic
A Role that has a scope of this resource.
scope of
An Item may have a sibling or a twin that exists in a different Container, but the siblings may differ in some small way (for example, language, category, etc.). The sibling of this Item should be self-describing (that is, it should contain all available information).
sibling
A resource that the UserAccount is a creator of.
creator of
The gender of this Agent (typically but not necessarily 'male' or 'female').
Links to the latest revision of this Item or Post.
latest version
A user account in an online community site.
User Account
Links extracted from hyperlinks within a SIOC concept, e.g. Post or Site.
links to
A workplace homepage of some person; the homepage of an organization they work for.
Links to an Item or Post which this Item or Post is a reply to.
reply of
A discussion area on which Posts or entries are made.
Forum
Refers to who (e.g. a UserAccount, e-mail address, etc.) a particular Item is addressed to.
addressed to
A personal mailbox, ie. an Internet mailbox associated with exactly one owner, the first owner of this mailbox. This is a 'static inverse functional property', in that there is (across time and change) at most one individual that ever has any particular value for foaf:mbox.
A container for a series of threaded discussion Posts or Items.
Thread
Specifies that this Item is about a particular resource, e.g. a Post describing a book, hotel, etc.
about
The underlying or 'focal' entity associated with some SKOS-described concept.
The graphs associated with the subject and object are equivalent.
Community is a high-level concept that defines an online community and what it consists of.
Community
Aplan comment, in the tradition of finger and '.plan' files.
An RDF graph (with intensional semantics).
Indicates the class of individuals that are a member of a Group
A Container or Forum that this Container or Forum is a child of.
has parent
A resource owned by a particular UserAccount, for example, a weblog or image gallery.
owner of
An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact).
Last (real) name of this user. Synonyms include surname or family name.
last name
This property is deprecated. Use foaf:name or foaf:surname from the FOAF vocabulary instead.
A foaf:LabelProperty is any RDF property with texual values that serve as labels.
An Item is something which can be in a Container.
Item
An Item that this UserAccount has modified.
modifier of
The birthday of this Agent, represented in mm-dd string form, eg. '12-31'.
A resource that this Role applies to.
has scope
A child Container or Forum that this Container or Forum is a parent of.
parent of
The sha1sum of the URI of an Internet mailbox associated with exactly one owner, the first owner of the mailbox.
A Site that the UserAccount is an administrator of.
administrator of
The Container to which this Item belongs.
has container
A note associated with this resource, for example, if it has been edited by a UserAccount.
note
A URI of a document which contains this SIOC object.
link
A short informal nickname characterising an agent (includes login identifiers, IRC and other chat nicknames).
A resource that the subject is a part of.
part of
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:isPartOf from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
A link to the publications of this person.
An image that can be used to represent some thing (ie. those depictions which are particularly representative of something, eg. one's photo on a homepage).
A work info homepage of some person; a page about their work for some organization.
has group
This property has been renamed. Use sioc:has_usergroup instead.
The number of Threads (AKA discussion topics) in a Forum.
num threads
The name of a SIOC concept instance, e.g. a username for a UserAccount, group name for a Usergroup, etc.
name
A Space that the Usergroup has access to.
usergroup of
The date and time of the last reply Post or Comment, which could be associated with a starter Item or Post or with a Thread, and expressed in ISO 8601 format.
last reply date
The primary topic of some page or document.
A location that something is based near, for some broadly human notion of near.
This is the title (subject line) of the Post. Note that for a Post within a threaded discussion that has no parents, it would detail the topic thread.
title
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:title from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
Indicates a homepage of the service provide for this online account.
The discussion that is related to this Item.
has discussion
When this was created, in ISO 8601 format.
created at
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:created from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
A resource which belongs to this data Space.
space of
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) RDF vocabulary, described using W3C RDF Schema and the Web Ontology Language.
group of
This property has been renamed. Use sioc:usergroup_of instead.
A Container that a UserAccount is subscribed to.
subscriber of
The number of Posts (or Items) in a Forum (or a Container).
num items
Previous Item or Post in a given Container sorted by date.
previous by date
A Forum that a UserAccount is a moderator of.
moderator of
The date and time of the last Post (or Item) in a Forum (or a Container), in ISO 8601 format.
last item date
Points to a Usergroup that has certain access to this Space.
has usergroup
An Item that this Container contains.
container of
This is the UserAccount that made this resource.
has creator
The IP address used when creating this Item. This can be associated with a creator. Some wiki articles list the IP addresses for the creator or modifiers when the usernames are absent.
ip address
A tipjar document for this agent, describing means for payment and reward.
A project this person has previously worked on.