mle: Enhancing the Exploration of Mailing List Archives Through Making Semantics Explicit

Following and understanding discussions on mailing lists is a prevalent task for executives and policy makers in order to get an impression of one’s company image. However, existing solutions providing a Web-based archive require substantial manual effort to search for or filter certain information. With mle we propose a new way to automatically process mailing list archives. The tool is realised based on two Semantic Web technologies: Firstly, SIOC is utilised as the primary vocabulary for describing posts, people, and topics; secondly the RDF metadata is deployed by means of embedding it in the Web page encoded in RDFa. 1 Motivation Though instant messaging, blogs, feeds, etc. become more and more important means of communication and discussion, mails remain one of the cornerstones of the business world on the Internet. The consumption and navigation in mailing discussion threads—actually the process of understanding discussions—is still a prevalent task for executives and po...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: Michael Hausenblas, Herwig Rehatschek
• Keywords: Mailing List, Mailing List Archives, One’s Company Image, SEMWEB 2007