After playing with del.icio.us and zool's RDF port of their API I wondered what other services I could link to from my FOAF. Having spent a happy hour or so in Waterstones at the weekend purchasing some extra goodies to top up my already bulging bookshelves it dawned on me: AllConsuming.net has a REST interface … Continue reading AllConsuming Reading Lists in RDF →

In response to a thread on rdfweb-dev earlier this week I created a wiki page for capturing FOAF Application Ideas. The idea being to capture various application suggestions, no matter how detailed, in a central place so that the creativity doesn't get lost in the mailing list or buried in the #foaf chat logs. It … Continue reading Listen To Me →

Funny how terms just seem to emerge out of no-where isn't it? I came across the the term Semantic Integration the other day, via this posting from Dare Obasanjo: Semantic Integration and XML. Since then I keep tripping over it. Basically semantic integration seems to involve using RDF/OWL to define mappings between XML vocabularies. Recently … Continue reading Semantic Integration →

Lots of interesting FOAF activity lately, seemingly spurred on by the ETech presentations. Danny has already blogged pointers to the Guardian coverage and the videos of the presentations. Elsewhere I see that flickr now supports FOAF through it's profile service. I've not looked at the site since I signed up and played a few days … Continue reading FOAF Activity →

I've been meaning to take a look at del.icio.us for a while now as my bookmarks have (once again) become unwieldy and have been increasingly frustrated about having stuff bookmarked "to read" at work but not at home. Prompted by zool's del.icio.us in RDF posting I decided to sign-up and have a play. My first … Continue reading Del.icio.us →

Been to any good gigs lately? Why not record this additional information in your FOAF description? Continuing the Get Your FOAF On series I'll show you how to describe your attendance at an event, with some specific notes on conference attendance. Describing events isn't a goal for FOAF, but it is a goal of the … Continue reading Get Your FOAF On: Events →

social software: automatic relationship clustering is a very interesting article over on d2r. It discusses using graph clustering techniques to identify groups within a social network. Diego suggests that adapting this to use FOAF ought to be straight-forward. As I noted in my critique of XFN plain old foaf:knows is a fairly limited relationship. It's … Continue reading Automatic Relationship Clustering →

This is the second article in the "Get Your FOAF On" series which provides some short overview of how to use various FOAF features. In this edition we'll look at the FOAF vocabulary elements for describing project as well as stating your involvement. Let's jump straight in with an example: <foaf:Project> <dc:title>My Pet Project</dc:title> <dc:description>A … Continue reading Get Your FOAF On: Projects →

This is the first in a series of short articles showcasing some of the capabilities of the FOAF and related vocabularies. The intention is to provide enough detail to show the expressive power of the existing properties and how they can be usefully mixed with other vocabularies. However I want to keep these examples simple … Continue reading Get Your FOAF On →

Along with my co-author, Brian Kelly, I've had a paper accepted for the IADIS 2004 - Web Based Communities conference. The paper discusses the role of FOAF and the Semantic Web in supporting community building, particularly at conferences. The HTML version of the paper is now online. We're intending to generate as much data as … Continue reading Using FOAF to Support Community Building →