RDF IRC Chat Logger

This documents the automatically generated logs for various IRC chats channels, but primarily the RDF Interest Group public Semantic Web IRC chat at irc://irc.openprojects.net/rdfig (also known as server irc.openprojects.net channel #rdfig if that URI does not work for you).

The logger bot listens to the chat channel and records it in public logs. These are available at http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/ and are written live in three formats - RDF, plain text and HTML (created from RDF via XSLT).

Logger accepts a few commands that can be done publically with
logger, COMMAND
or privately with
/msg logger COMMAND

The full list of commands can be found by the help command
/msg logger help

Logger can be told to stop listening/recording to the chat, if for some reason this is required. For individual messages this can be done by putting the phrase '[off]' at the start of a line of text and for longer conversations, tell logger to stop listening with:
logger, off
and recording again with
logger, on
(there are other synonyms). The on/off messages are logged, as well as all public commands to logger.

Logger also can perform searches over the logs using the find or grep command (or ending anything to logger with ?). It returns matches to the given perl regex in recent output, most recent first. See the help text for more details. The search results can be emailed to somebody by appending |MAIL-ADDRESS to the end of the search line (you must have a space before the |)

Logger has some admin commands but these require the password :-)

logger will attempt to reconnect when disconnected and if it dies, currently will be restarted automatically. It doesn't yet handle all network problems very gracefully.

Provided by Dave Beckett, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol