[rdfweb-dev] Which Person wrote this FOAF?

[Morten Frederiksen]

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:24, Julian Bond wrote:
> Most FOAF files in the wild follow a pattern. They have one foaf:Person
> with lots of information about the person that wrote the file and then a
> long list of foaf:Persons with minimal info linked via foaf:knows.
> There's an implied suggestion that the Primary foaf:Person information
> is authoritative because it's about the person that made the file.
> Several of the Foaf Explorers (even those written by RDF-heads) display
> this implied information because the main person is displayed first at
> the top of the html page.
The FoaF Explorer did at one time rely strictly on document order, but that's 
not the case any more.

It now uses the Topic Finder [1] approach, which is pretty much what you've 
described above - except that it also looks for foaf:topic.


[1] http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/foaf/IFP/

Regards,
Morten