SkoHub: Supporting topic-based content syndication & discovery in a federated environment

This talk introduces the work of #software:skohub to facilitate topic-based channel discovery over ActivityPub instead of sharing vocabularies through Git repositories – which is already a great improvement over some pre-standard practices to share non-machine-readable taxonomies – or in addition to publishing, e.g., videos on Peertube (here in order to facilitate search across instances and go beyond the statically-compiled list of categories in #software:peertube).

It really inspires me to use SkoHub to publish controlled-vocabularies in the context of mapping the Commons (see the Intermapping #bof next Sunday) instead of coupling it to the software (or more precisely in this case: to the database).

SkoHub currently requires publishers to send Linked Data Notes, but their goal is to allow ActivityPub announcements for this part as well.

Thank you @acka47 and @literarymachine!

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