April 27, 2003

FOAF and weblogs

Three things about FOAF and weblogs! Firstly, Ben Hammersley has written a piece for the Guardian on the latest project of the Six Apart folks behind the Moveable Type weblog publishing system. They're launching a new service, TypePad providing what looks to be a very full-featured hosting service. While MT is pretty easy to install, TypePad looks pretty cool. As well as rumoured FOAF support, it has a built-in photo album facility. The combination of those two could be quite interesting...

Oh, the other two FOAF/weblog things: I wanted to announce the existence of the foaf:weblog property a bit more widely. FOAF now has the ability to represent the address of your weblog, clearing the way for FOAF aggregators to support queries like "Find me weblogs of people who... (work for / live in / etc...)", matching against any of the other FOAF properties listed.

Finally, it's time to finish setting up the weblog we're running at http://rdfweb.org/ for FOAF and related projects. This mostly involves tweaking our MT installation and adding back the navigation and suchlike...

Posted by danbri at April 27, 2003 11:22 PM
Comments

foaf:weblog - great!

But what do you think the best way to point to the RSS 1.0 feed of the blog?

rdf:seeAlso seems to be in common use to point to other RDF files, but how best to combine this with foaf:weblog? Three alternatives spring to mind:

two statements (simple)

rdf:seeAlso -> http://example.com/feed.xml
foaf:weblog -> http://example.com/feed.xml

using blank node :

rdf:seeAlso -> bNode -> foaf:weblog -> http://example.com/feed.xml

I'm not sure what was planned for foaf:Document, how about

rdf:seeAlso -> foaf:Document -> foaf:weblog -> http://example.com/feed.xml

Posted by: Danny on April 28, 2003 04:40 PM

How about this ?

<foaf:weblog>
<foaf:Document rdf:about="http://example.org/weblog/">
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://example.com/feed.xml"/>
</foaf:Document>
</foaf:weblog>

Posted by: Masahide Kanzaki on June 2, 2003 03:48 AM
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