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And following old version of properties has been marked as archaic as well. foaf: family_name foaf: familyName
Sun Bloggers 2009
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He said, "do this foaf" thing - meaning "friend of a friend", actual software-implemented semantic web stuff that goes by the name of "foaf".
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Portable contact lists and the case against XFN | FactoryCity (tags: foaf dataportability microformats opensocial xfn) [...]
Portable contact lists and the case against XFN | FactoryCity 2008
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I have a foaf file and it uses a sha1 hash to obscure the email address of my friends.
It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity 2008
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It originally had foaf: knowsWell and foaf: friend too but these were dropped.
Portable contact lists and the case against XFN | FactoryCity 2008
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Machine tagging relationships (tags: citizen-centric web digital identity microformats technology building diso foaf machine tags portable contacts relationships xfn) [...]
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Foaf takes a little more work to figure out than microformats but the ability to expand your vocabularies beyond the original foaf vocabulary makes foaf/rdf a wonderful outlet for publishing information about yourself and your friends.
It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity 2008
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Now, take the link-rel approach from HTML, and we have a shorthand attribute (“rel”) that we can use to create a machine tag that follows the standard namespace: predicate = value format, like so: flickr: rel = friend flickr: rel = family twitter: rel = followed dopplr: rel = fellow-traveler xfn: rel = friend foaf: rel = knows
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I have setup auto discovery of my foaf file on my www home page.
It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity 2008
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| FactoryCity Hints that apple have been working with foaf and may be connecting up their underlying rss/atom infrastructure across apps like Address Book. (tags: apple foaf leopard osx socialnetworking) [...]
Apple source code pointing to social features? | FactoryCity 2007
ockerblo commented on the word foaf
FOAF: "friend of a friend". Used in Jan Harold Brunvand's books on urban folklore as the claimed subject of many "true" legends; nowadays "foaf" also refers to a Linked Data convention for describing relationships between persons.
August 27, 2009