Tag: foaf


FOAF Vocabulary Specification

This revision of the specification consists mostly of editorial improvements. In addition the properties maker and made, as well as the clases Agent and Organization are now marked as “stable”, in acknowledgment of their unproblematic usage in the Semantic Web community, and as an indicator that only minor changes to their document are anticipated for the future. See the changes section for details of the changes in this version of the specification.

The FOAF standard finally getting some attention again.


Connecting Social Content Services using FOAF, RDF and REST

The pressure for information to be free, is translating into pressure for sites to expose open services for users to interact with. Similar pressures are leading to standardisation of data formats; web services alone aren’t enough the data must be portable and easily exchangeable. XML and RDF are both core technologies that facilitate this exchange, with specific vocabularies, such as FOAF (description of users) and RSS (syndication of content) addressing particular needs.

An interesting paper on online social networks