[doap-interest] DOAP and lists of [favorite] applications?

[Allen Gunn]

At 12:57 PM 7/20/2006, Uldis Bojars wrote:
>Hi Allen,
>
>On 7/20/06, Allen Gunn 
><<mailto:gunner at aspirationtech.org>gunner at aspirationtech.org> wrote:
>
>Aspiration ( www.aspirationtech.org) is working on a tool that does 
>some of what you ask about. We've built a Flickr-like front end for 
>tagging DOAP records, and coupled that with social networking 
>features that let users browse "who's using what" and "who else is 
>using what I'm using". We've also added some basic social 
>recommendation/collaborative filtering features as well. We don't 
>have a "favorite" flag, but that is certainly an enhancement we 
>could consider, especially if it was part of DOAP :^)
>
>
>Do you expose or have considered exposing "who's using what" or 
>"what I am using" lists in DOAP (a machine readable form)?

We would love to do that, it is definitely "on our feature list" :^). 
But our general DOAP interoperability is still pretty weak, and we're 
looking to fix that very soon.

>If so, how do you express a link from a person to an application 
>he/she is using?

TBD, and your thoughts most welcome :)

>If we had a property to express this link, then adding a "favorite" 
>tag would be quite easy.

Agreed.

>P.S. For the "what I am using" lists you don't need to export full 
>DOAP profile - just a link to the DOAP profile (its URI?) should be 
>enough. Also you would need to identify people - that's where FOAF 
>comes in handy.

Yes, and that's definitely how we plan to do that.

I appreciate the excellent thoughts.

thanks & peace,
gunner


>The Social Source Commons platform is targeted at nonprofit techies 
>to support mapping and enumerating their tools universe, but the 
>underlying code is entirely general for any application space. The 
>app is written in Rails, and we'll be releasing it under GPL.
>
>
>Sounds interesting. :)
>
>Uldis
>
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