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Susan Herring and her BROG research group have done some work with mining
the FOAF from LiveJournal and extracting semantics using social network
analysis.  You can see it
http://www.blogninja.com/paolillo-mercure-wright.final.pdf.  Also, more
information from the Blogninja site at www.blogninja.com.

Alvin


On 5/17/06, Elijah Wright <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >> Getting the bulk data out of LiveJournal is trivially easy.  The
> >> others, not so much.
> >
> > Livejournal doesn't provide feeds of what communities people are in,
> > however. It's too bad, because having that affiliation data could be
> > really interesting. As it stands now you have to screen-scrape for it.
>
> Yes.  You have to work things the other way - collect the FOAF for the
> community and then extract the membership lists from there.
>
> We assume that this is an artifact of how their backend storage is
> structured, but haven't really done the digging to make sure...
>
> --e
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