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During the recording of the December podcast of the Semantic-Link (as of this writing, soon to be posted), I emphasized the general need for enablement of the general public to begin contributing and consuming linked data – without having to have much, if any, technical wherewithal. The real explosion of the Web itself came as a result of wysiwyg authoring and facilitation of posting content and comments by just about anyone with a web connection. Similarly, de-tech-ification of where the web is going from here is what will pave the way to getting there.
There are standards and tools now for the related underlying componentry, and what is needed is user-interface development that will usher in the explosion of linked-content generation and consumption (as web2.0 did before).
Toward this end, Andreas Blumauer writes about a new version of PoolParty’s WordPress plugin that extends an in-page Apture-like approach, to use and contribute to the LD ecosystem. This (coupled with other elements such as SKOSsy) is an example of the type of UI gateway that is needed in order to enable the general public to participate – with systems that generate and digest the linked-data-age information currency.
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AXONomics 
December 14, 2011 at 11:48 am
Thanks Eric, the WordPress plugin aims to support people to publish content together with semantic metadata in a more structured machine-readable way. With this setting it´s quite easy to seperate the role of the content manager from the metadata manager. Each wordpress blog can be published together with a linked data frontend.
In combination with SKOSsy it is easier than ever before to generate, curate and publish high-quality thesauri and linked data: Those can be used for text mining, content publishing (together with the WP-plugin), semantic search etc.
Next step will be to offer SPARQL endpoints for any WP-blog to make the content semantically mashable and retrievable.