Part of the continuing Get Your FOAF On series, this tutorial is a companion to the earlier installment on events, covering some specific types of event description. While the RDF iCalender effort is certainly the most rigorous approach to describing events in RDF, this doesn't mean that it's the only way to do it and … Continue reading Get Your FOAF On: Events continued →

This has already circulated to a few folk, but I thought I'd share it with a wider audience. Basically I've written up a first attempt at an RDF Schema for MusicBrainz. Here's the schema and here's the accompanying notes, including some comments on how SongBuddy exports its data as RDF and how this might be … Continue reading MusicBrainz RDF Schema →

Over the past few months I've begun scattering my online presence over a number of different services, taking advantage of their XML/RDF interfaces to re-integrate myself using my FOAF description. Here are some notes on my experiences so far, and some suggestions for a couple of other services that I'd like to see built. Currently … Continue reading Scattered Self →

I came across a posting from Matthew Haughey this morning which contained this comment: I think developers forget that people won't or can't use any technology until it's got an easy-to-use interface. I know it's important at some level, but I couldn't care less about say, which RDF vocabulary FOAF will use, I only care … Continue reading FOAF Blogrolls →

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 →