pronunciation: [ˈɛksodʊs]
This is an implementation of the basic functionalities of a DSSN Provider, as described in Tramp et al. An Architecture of a Distributed Semantic Social Network:
- Semantic Pingback for Friending
- Pubsubhubbub (PuSH) for notification along the edges
It is written in PHP and utilizes the Zend Framework, the Erfurt Framework and lib-dssn.
If you want to read more about xodx take a look at the wiki. In case you see any bugs or have feature-requests please follow the issue-workflow.
You need a webserver (tested with Apache and nginx but I hope it also runs with lighttd or any other webserver) and a database backend which is supported by Erfurt (Virtuoso and MySQL). Because this software is written in PHP you'll need php (>= 5.3.7) with the bindings for your webserver or fastcgi, PHP-support for your database (php-odbc or php-mysql) and php-curl.
Take the prepared config.ini-dist file, copy it to config.ini and configure it according to your system setup.
If you have an OntoWiki runnnig you can copy the database connection section (store.*) into the config.ini of xodx.
To import the initial base ontology for Erfurt you have to allow virtuoso to read the xodx directory.
You can configure this by adding the directory to DirsAllowed in your virtuoso.ini (on debian systems you can find it at /etc/virtuoso-opensource-6.1/virtuoso.ini, if you are using the debian packages; or /var/lib/virtuoso/db/virtuoso.ini, if you are using the lod2 package or if you have build virtuoso from the source).
Run make submodules to clone Erfurt, lib-dssn-php and Saft.
If make failes you can try it manually with git submodule init and git submodule update.
Zend is installed with make zend or alternatively you have to place a copy of the Zend framework library into libraries/Zend/ you can do this by doing the following things (replace ${ZENDVERSION} e.g. with 1.12.0):
wget http://packages.zendframework.com/releases/ZendFramework-${ZENDVERSION}/ZendFramework-${ZENDVERSION}-minimal.tar.gz
tar xzf ZendFramework-${ZENDVERSION}-minimal.tar.gz
mv ZendFramework-${ZENDVERSION}-minimal/library/Zend libraries
rm -rf ZendFramework-${ZENDVERSION}-minimal.tar.gz ZendFramework-${ZENDVERSION}-minimal
In order to get the JavaScript dependencies twitter bootstrap and jquery run:
make resources
in the xodx root directory (should be the same directory where you found this file).
Currently, this project is developed using OntoWiki's coding standard.
Xodx - An implementation of the basic functionalities of a DSSN Provider
Copyright (C) 2013 Natanael Arndt, Norman Radtke
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