[foaf-dev] Re: Social Networks that use FOAF

[Michael Wechner]

Sören Auer wrote:

> > Guess what. Tribe.net turned off FOAF completely.
>
> To me it is pretty obvious why (larger) social networks are not very 
> interested in FOAF - they are evaluated, gain users and (advertising) 
> revenues by page views and consequently are not eager to give out the 
> data e.g. as FOAF.
>
> If we want to increase the popularity of FOAF we should focus on 
> increasing FOAF support in Web apps (such as Drupal, Typos3, Lifetype, 
> PhpBB etc.), which drive the Web today.


very much agreed

AFAIK Drupal 7 will focuse very much on RDF as Yanel does. We just 
recently implemented a resource to import/index FOAF files from a 
directory (which have been dumped there before)

http://foaf.wyona.org/en/importing-foaf-files.html

which should allow people to dump/import FOAF files easily if needed, 
whereas we actually encourage to leave the FOAF where it is and one can 
make it searchable on remote third-party servers by adding a custom 
search results parser

http://foaf.wyona.org/en/custom-search-results-parser.html

>
> Most of you have probably seen it already, but I want to point again 
> on Triplify [1], which is a small plugin for Web applications, which 
> reveals the content of a relational DB backend as RDF, JSON and Linked 
> Data. The Triplify configurations for Wordpress, WackoWiki and Drupal 
> already heavily use FOAF ;-)


Is there any publicly available samples of a triplified web-application?

Thanks

Michael

>
> Happy easer egg hunt
>
> Sören
>
> [1] http://Triplify.org
>
>


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