PUBLIC MARKS from user karlcow with tag foaf

The hyperdata Address Book project being developed here is meant to be the equivalent for foaf that BlogReaders are for RSS. It is a specialised Semantic Web browser that follows foaf documents around the web, building a distributed open social network. It is also a foaf editor, which you can use to publish your foaf files to an ftp/scp server.

DOAC (Description Of A Career) is a vocabulary to descripve professional capabilities of a worker. It has been designed to be compatible with the Europass Curriculum so those can be generated from a FOAF DOAC file.

Now that the RDFa syntax is a full standard, and organisations like Yahoo! and Google are starting to index the data (see Google announces support for RDFa and Yahoo! into semantic web), it's worth putting more of your own data into your web-pages, by way of RDFa. A simple place to start is to modify your home-page or blog profile so that it includes FOAF information.

quick and horrid Perl script (his words) to convert the common family tree GED format to RDF/XML.

command is an exploration of using Friend of a Friend (FOAF) data to provide more context about the currently viewed page. It can be installed within Mozilla Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs project.

The prototype uses FOAF and SIOC to model microbloggers, their properties, account and service information, and the microblog updates that users create. A multitude of publishing services can ping one or a set of aggregating servers as selected by each user, and it is important to note that users retain control of their own data through self hosting.

the above illustrates just how simple it is to write some very clear inferencing rules.

The problem – a problem – with FOAF and RDF is quite simple. People don’t want formats that can do anything, they want formats that can do something. I got a Flickr API downloader going in about 30 minutes, taking my time. I’ve put hours into FOAF and still am unhappy.

This ontology aims at providing a simple vocabulary for describing programmes. It covers brands, series (seasons), episodes, broadcast events, broadcast services, etc. Its development was funded by the BBC, and is heavily grounded on previous programmes data modelling work done there. This documentation page is a first draft. All feedback on either the ontology or this page is welcomed! Feel free to email the authors mentioned aboved. The design and layout of this ontology document is based on the Music Ontology and FOAF Vocabulary specification documents, and was generated using the following hand-tuned onto_spec.pl SWI-Prolog script and HTML templates.

But when Orkut was blocked at the ISP level in Iran, pretty much nobody in the English-speaking blog-tech-pundit scene seemed to even notice. This continues to bug me. Web technologists apparantly care collectively more about freeing Robert Scoble’s addressbook from Facebook, than about the real potential for unmediated, uncensored, global online community.

proposal to establish a reasonable privacy balance in social networking environment.

I’ve been trying to capture the core terms of FOAF in a diagram. Here’s version two.

If I keep adding to the query for each other site, presumably the only person in common across all accounts will be …. me.

The Facebook Foaf generator is part of a wider research aim to integrate social identities from web 2.0 style social networking sites. The main problem with information integration from various different sources is the issue of different data formats.

It’s simply a mistake to fail to distinguish the world from its description, or the territory from the map.

The one where the FOAF Output plugin is extended to also generate a SKOS Concept Scheme.

It shows one of the real advantages of RDFa: the foaf data mixes quite a number of various vocabularies, but that is absolutely no problem for something like RDFa. In any case, I do not intend to edit my foaf data in RDF/XML any more…