This data provides an RDF representation of social media data annotated with the Argument for the Social Web Ontology. This ontology uses the Semantically Interlinked Online Communities project (http://sioc-project.org/) to represent social media data, and an extension to the Argument Interchange Format (http://www.argumentinterchange.org/developers) to classify different types of argumentation present in each post and the relationships between them.

An example post is shown below, with comments:

<!-- Namespace definitions -->
<rdf:RDF
   xmlns:ns1="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#"
   xmlns:ns2="http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/aif#"
   xmlns:ns3="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#"
   xmlns:ns4="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>

<!-- A post -->
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#Post_01">
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#Post"/>

    <!-- This is the body of the post -->
    <ns2:claimText>This is the body of the post</ns2:claimText>
    
    <!-- This is metadata describing the post; e.g., the author, the parent thread/topic, replies from and to, and time of posting -->
    <ns3:has_creator rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#User_01"/>
    <ns3:has_container rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#Thread_01"/>
    <ns3:has_reply rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#Post_02"/>
    <ns3:reply_of rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#Post_00"/>
    <ns4:created rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2013-10-16T01:30:59</ns4:created>

    <!-- This represents the number of Likes/Upvotes/Favourites the post received -->    
    <ns1:has_reputation rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer">8</ns1:has_reputation>
    
    <!-- This describes the post semantically as a "Locution" - the actual words spoken/typed by a participant in the discussion -->
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/aif#L-node"/>
</rdf:Description>

<!-- An "I-Node" - a representation of the information contained in the above post -->
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#I_Node_01">
    <ns3:has_container rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#Thread_01"/>
    <ns2:claimText>This is the claim or data presented by Post 01</ns2:claimText>
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/aif#I-node"/>
</rdf:Description>

<!-- An "RA-Node" - a supportive, logical relationship between the above I-node, and another I-node -->
<!-- Other relationship types include logical conflict, as well as Personal SUpport/Conflict -->
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#RA_Node_01">
    <ns2:Premise rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#I_Node_01"/>
    <ns2:Conclusion rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#I_Node_00"/>
    <ns3:has_container rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#Thread_01"/>
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/aif#RA-node"/>
</rdf:Description>

<!-- This "YA-Node" anchors the semantic argument description to the social argument description -->
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#YA_Node_01">
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/aif#Normal_Illocution"/>
    <ns3:has_container rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#Thread_01"/>
    <ns2:IllocutionaryContent rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#I_Node_01"/>
    <ns2:IllocutionaryContent rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#RA_Node_01"/>
    <ns2:Locution rdf:resource="http://tomblount.co.uk/aswo#Post_01"/>
  </rdf:Description>