From IKMEmergent

Due to time contraints this project was not developed further. However, further work to capture social media contact from Internet Governance Forum events took place in 2011 at http://igf2011.diplomacy.edu

Open IGF

Following the use of an aggregation tool to capture information at the 2010 IGF a number of experiments will be attempted to explore how creating a link-data representation of formal and informal discussions around the IGF could aid understanding of the forum.

Code

Twitter Messages

Twitter messages have been loaded into a Virtuoso data store using the SIOC ontology to make up:

• Hash tags
• @messages
• Authors

From here, data can be extracted using SPARQL, and converted into a variety of formats. For example, the following query issued against [1] will show all the links between tags in the dataset (i.e. tweets where a particular tag is shared).

SELECT  ?a ?t where {
?s <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#topic> ?t;
    <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#topic> ?a.
   FILTER(?t != ?a) 
}