We've just shipped a major update to the FOAF Specification. The spec now provides a lot more detail on the terms ("classes" and "properties") which make up the FOAF vocabulary. There's plenty more work to do, of course, but this is an healthy step in the creeping professionalisation of our documentation. Uniquely identifying properties in FOAF are indicated using W3C's OWL language, making it possible for generic Semantic Web tools to easily merge together scattered, decentralised collections of FOAF descriptions.
The spec includes detailed and cross-referenced documentation for each term, as well as information about its status ('unstable','testing','stable'). The FOAF specification is presented to humans in XHTML form, but is also available in RDF form for machines, drawing upon W3C's RDF Schema and Web Ontology (OWL) languages.
Posted by danbri at August 19, 2003 11:37 PMNo entry found for professionalisation.
Did you mean professionalization?
heh. no.
Posted by: Dan Brickley on August 19, 2003 11:42 PMbug report:
this is not a valid xml file, note the double ?xml processing instruction (lines 1 and 3566).
Ernesto, thanks for the bug report. There was an error in the software that generates the spec from its source files, should be fixed now. Cheers!
Posted by: Dan Brickley on August 20, 2003 08:28 PMJust in case somebody would like to see the foaf schema in a human readable form :)
Posted by: Richard Vdovjak on October 1, 2003 03:57 PMJust in case somebody would like to see/browse the foaf schema in a human readable form.
Posted by: Richard Vdovjak on October 1, 2003 04:01 PMRichard, I nearly deleted your comment as spam! What's the origin of the name 'eros'?
Posted by: libby on January 16, 2004 11:48 PMAre the scripts to generate the foaf spec in human readable form from the schema available?
Thanks