Hi Greg, Sounds a good idea. On 9/16/05, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > IMHO think the "archive of (primarily) text-based chat" is a nice concrete > specific problem (see principles) that it deserves its own "as simple as > possible" solution. Yep. I had a quick skim for prior art around RDF because I vaguely remember one or two people modelling IM/chat data in RDF (and things like blog conversations - the ThreadsML stuff). But there's nothing much immediately useful at SchemaWeb or the ESW Wiki, the usual starting points for things like this. But I did find Nabu: [[ Nabu is a plugin for Jive Messenger, a server implementation of the Jabber Instant Messaging protocol. It provides server-side logging of chat conversations and related events. The logged data is stored in a semantic graph, using the RDF W3C standard. ]] http://nabu.opendfki.de/cgi-bin/trac.cgi There's an RDF Schema: http://nabu.opendfki.de/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/file/trunk/ontology/nabu.rdfs?rev=126&format=raw Which is a lot clearer if you paste the URI into RDFS Explorer: http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/ws/2003/01/rdfs/ Some other related stuff: http://esw.w3.org/topic/InternetRelayChat Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com