My FoaF file is now available!
If you don’t know what this means, no worries. Go on with your life. :)
If you don’t know what this means, and are up for some geekspeak, or if you do know what this means and are up for some geekspeak, read on….
Spurred on by being included in Phil’s FOAF file, I finally decided to dive in and create one of my own. The basic structure came from the FOAF-a-matic, then I tweaked it a bit, using Phil’s file as a guideline.
In essence, the FOAF project creates a short RDF file that lists information about the person in question, then lists people that they consider friends. In theory, a FOAF browser could then read one persons FOAF file, follow it to pointers for their friends, read those files and follow on to see who they know, and so on. Person A knows persons B and C, who know persons D through R, and so on.
I’d read a bit about it before (via Ben Hammersley, Mark Pilgrim, and probably a few others), but as Phil is the only person that I read regularly that I’ve really started conversing back and forth with, it took his prompting to get me off my butt and join in the fun.
Right now, my FOAF file includes all of two people besides me — Phil and Royce. Royce doesn’t have a FOAF file that I know of, but I tend to use him a lot for little projects like this. The list may grow in the future, but for now…well, it’s a start, right?