Weblog Publishing Platform

ODS-Weblog provides a sophisticated platform for editing and publishing of Weblogs.

Feature Highlights

Content Publishing Protocols Support

• Moveable Type
• Blogger (1.0 & 2.0)
• Meta Weblog
• Atom

Content Syndication Formats

• RSS 1.0
• RSS 2.0 (including variations from Yahoo! and Apple)
• Atom
• OPML
• OCS
• SIOC
• FOAF
• XBEL

Content Management

• CSS & (X)HTML based Page Templating
• WYSIWYG editor (includes Preview and Save-as-Draft functions)
• Archiving - by year, month, category
• Sophisticated Comment Engine - includes OpenID support and transparent integration with NNTP
• Enclosures support for multimedia casting (Podcasts and Videocasts)
• Keyword-driven rules engine for automated content-categorization and tagging
• Automatically generated Linkblogs and Summary Pages (for outbound link automation)
• Search - Free Text, GData, SPARQL, XQuery, and XPath
• Automatic generation of syndication gems (ATOM, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, XBEL, OpenSearch) for all Search and Query result sets
• Microformats support - RDFa, eRDF, XFN, hReview, and others
• Mobile Blogging for Mobile phones acting as Blog clients

3rd Party Integration via web Services

• Automatic pinging of 3rd party services such as: weblogs.com, technorati.com, pingthesemanticweb.com, and others
• Import and Export integration with shard bookmarking services such as del.icio.us
• Automatic synchronization with third party (and other ODS Weblog instances) via rules-based upstreaming

Security

• Community / Group authored blogs include oles- based security across various profile
• Access-control - Blog readership is controllable via Access Control Lists (ACLs)

How Do I ...?

• Make Downstreaming(Importing)?
• Make Upstreaming?
• Use OpenID for my Weblog Posts authentication verification?
• Manipulate my Weblog data via REST using authentication based on OAuth, sessions, or password hash?
• Set Automatic links and Content Hyperlinking?
• Configure my Weblog?
• Use the Virtuoso OAuth Test tool to manage my Weblog data?
• Use the Weblog Ubiquity Commands?
• Use SPARQL to Query My Weblog using the SIOC Ontology
• Use SPARQL to Query My Weblog using the Atom Ontology
• Use SPARQL to Query My Weblog using the SKOS Ontology
• Use SPARQL to Query My Weblog using the FOAF Ontology
• Perform the Distributed Social Network use case specified by SWATO level 0?

FAQs

• Weblog FAQ

Quick Start Guides

• Getting Started with Weblog

Weblog Tutorials

• Weblog Importing Tutorial
• Weblog Upstreaming Ubiquity Tutorial
• Weblog OAuth Authentication Tutorial
• Weblog OAuth REST API Tutorial with the Virtuoso OAuth Testing Tool

Reference Guides

• Weblog's Programmers Guide
• Web Services Programmers 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
• PHPBB SIOC Reference
• Check out our Blog Data Space in action by visiting the Virtuoso Technology Blog
• Weblog Platform White Paper