[doap-interest] New DOAP repository: doapspace.org

[Stuart Yeates]

Rob Cakebread wrote:
>> Great site Rob
>>
>> I especially like the HTML view of the DOAP, i think this really
>> useful, since it encourages people to look at the underlying data.
>>
>> Thanks for the link to hDOAP:
>> http://dannyayers.com:88/xmlns/hdoap/profile/index.xhtml
>>
>> I also like the way you have used mbox_sha1sum to prevent email
>> address harvesting.
>>
> 
> Thanks, Stuart.
> 
> The FOAF elements need some work to be more accurate - the mbox_sha1sum
> doesn't match up with a person's actual name in a lot of the DOAP
> because it uses their nickname instead of actual name, but I'm
> correcting that with more detailed data from FLOSSmole.

mbox_sha1sum is the hash of the mbox (= email address) rather than
name. Name representations are _really_ hard to get right,
particularly in cross-cultural contexts, which is why we're FOAF
uses email addresses.

cheers
stuart
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