[foaf-dev] Re: What about FOAF?

[Uldis Bojars]

Hi John,

It may be misleading to look at the FOAF namespace "version number"
(0.1) as an indication of FOAF not being developed though. Look at the
FOAF vocabulary specification [1] and you will see that it is at the
revision 1.122, last changed on 2007-01-14.

Like you said there are things that may indicate that FOAF development
is staled, e.g., "0.1" in the FOAF namespace, a quite static state of
http://foaf-project.org or the "unstable" / "testing" state of FOAF
terms, but the real indication of the popularity of a vocabulary is
how frequently is it and its terms used.

Developers from FOAF-Dev should be able to tell more, as well as tell
how you can help.

[1] http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/

Uldis

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On 5/20/07, Uldis Bojars <captsolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sending a copy to FOAF-Dev list as well. Feel free to CC discussions
> to SIOC-Dev - as you mentioned before SIOC and FOAF work together and
> we are interested to learn about any new developments in this area.
>
> On 5/20/07, John Hoogstrate <johnhoogstrate at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > At the moment SIOC is maturing very fast, which is good.
> >
> > SIOC uses FOAF (friend of a friend) to describe persons on the
> > internet. Unfortunately the FOAF-specification seems to have been
> > stuck in version 0.1 http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ with many terms
> > categorized as 'unstable'. The mailinglist has no activity, about a
> > month ago I sent some suggestions for FOAF, but received no reply.
> >
> > At this moment I am unable to tell if there is anybody working on
> > FOAF, but looking at the state of the website http://www.foaf-project.org/
> > it seems that FOAF is dead.
> >
> > With more and more implementations of SIOC currently being developed
> > many of them will also include an implementation of FOAF of which the
> > specification is far from finished and has quite a number of
> > problems.
> >
> > I think it would be good if some people started working on a new
> > revision of the FOAF-specification. I would like to help with that,
> > but I don't really know where to start.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > John Hoogstrate
> >
> >
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