I am a bit slow on taking up this technology, but I’ve done it anyway. Here is my Friend of a Friend file, just in case that you want to include me into your community.
- Download Scott’s foaf.rdf
FoaF provides an open standard mechanism to build social networks in the same fashion as Friendster. In the decentralised RDF file you can describe yourself (name, phone number, interests, etc), and you can also specify who do you know, using their email address (or SHA1 version of it) to link the contacts together. Therefore it is possible to write an application that parses several FoaF files and then build a network topology from it. In fact quite a few tools have been written for it.
Now I just need to wait for a spider to come by and pick up my freshly prepared RDF file. At the same time, I also need to find some friends, or at least those geeky ones that also have a FoaF entry.
Have you seen http://beta.plink.org/profile.php?id=f400351c9649f7dba144d48af658e4c4738b413b
Hey, that’s cool! And I saw you have already added me into your FoaF – might want to use my mbox_sha1sum to link to me. Can I add you as my “friend”? :)
I am trying to add you to my FoaF file. I can download your file, but when I try to open in Firefox browser, I get an error message. In order to add a link to your FoaF file, I need the url to your file – download the file itself does no good. Is this the correct url to your FoaF file?
http://scott.yang.id.au/foaf.rdf
See this page for reference FoaF refernece:
http://www.mkgappraisal.com/foaf.htm
my FoaF file is here:
http://www.mkgappraisal.com/foaf.rdf
it is a modest effort, but I hope to make it better as time goes on. Of course the most important part is ‘who you know’. I would be proud to add a Taiwan born Chinese Christian in Australia who works in software development
but need some help (or reassurance) with the address to your FoaF file.
I got the Glen Slaven FoaF file with no trouble. I tried to validate the file at
http://scott.yang.id.au/foaf.rdf
using
http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/
and also get an error.
Hope to hear from you,
Phil
Phil,
My FOAF was somehow lost when I moved server last year. Now I just need to see whether I can find a backup that actually still has the file..