Blogsearch: Semantic Services For Aggregating And Searching Blog Articles

The advent of new web technologies and the explosion of available information online led to an information overload. During this information revolution blogs have become considerably mainstream as a media of providing news. Although there are several arguments about their validity and credibility the large amount of blogs currently available require the usage of advanced techniques for the collection, analysis, mining and efficient querying of the available information. To this direction we present BlogSearch, a novel platform allowing aggregating, indexing and searching blog articles. The information is modelled using a novel RDF/S Ontology named Blogs Ontology and published as Linked Open Data. In addition, two sets of APIs are provided for inserting, updating and searching information whereas the platform provides also graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for searching and inserting information. To the best of our knowledge our platform is the only one currently available publishing blog articles as Linked Open Data and simultaneously providing APIs and GUIs for aggregating, inserting and searching articles.