
SWAML - Semantic Web Archive of Mailing Lists
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SWAML, pronounced [swæml], is a research project around the 
semantic web technologies to publish the mailing lists´s archive 
into a RDF format, developed at University of Oviedo (Spain). 

SWAML reads a collection of email messages stored in a mailbox 
(from a mailing list compatible with RFC 4155) and generates a 
RDF description. It is written in Python using SIOC as the main 
ontology to represent in RDF a mailing list.

Our homepage is:
        
    http://swaml.berlios.de

Development happens on BerliOS Forge:

    http://developer.berlios.de/projects/swaml/


REQUIREMENTS:
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	- python >= 2.4.0
	- rdflib >= 2.3.1		        			


FEATURES:
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	* platform independent (written in python)
	* shell mode (to use manually or by cron script)
	* compatible with RFC 4155
	* serialize RDF to disk
	* reusability of ontologies already extended, mainly SIOC
	* enrichment using FOAF
	* KML support
	* free software (under GNU General Public License, GPL)


PLANNED FEATURES:
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	* (X)HTML output
	* serialize to any RDFdb (sesame for example)
	* incremental exportations
  
