2010/4/30 Matthew Rowe <m.r...@dcs.shef.ac.uk> > Hi > > First just want to say Li that your app is cool. Good job. > > Hello, > > Am cc'ing the foaf-dev mailing (sorry for cross posting)... > > I just had a look at your fb graph API -> foaf rdf service[1], firstly cool > stuff, but I have a few points I will address below. > > I recall Matthew Rowe[2] making a similar service a few years ago which > spat out foaf data for a user's fb account, and I recall fb getting annoyed. > Am guessing they mentally might have shifted since danbri's good work in > getting them involve with SW tech (great work once again by danbri ... > *tonnes of applause), I guess we will find out soon ... > > > Indeed it appears that their opinion of 'open data' has shifted. Facebook > refused to list the FOAF Generator, which Mischa mentions, in their > application directory as they were concerned about having 'their' data > exported from Facebook for use by 3rd parties. You can use it here: > > http://ext.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~u0057/FoafGenerator<http://ext.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eu0057/FoafGenerator> > > With the above app you are able to export your entire social graph from fb, > thus capturing all your relationships in RDF using FOAF. I guess that with > the Open Graph Protocol you can't get such information. >
I believe there was a restriction facebook has about caching data for more than 48 hours. In the f8 keynote last week mark zuckerberg said that restriction had now been lifted > > > I just built a demo that provides dereferenable HTTP URIs (with > RDF/XML data) for Facebook data using data retrieved from the recently > announced Graph API by Facebook. see > http://sam.tw.rpi.edu/ws/face_lod.html > > In the demo, I observed inconsistent term usage between the Facebook > data API (JSON) and open graph protocol vocabulary. There is also > some good potential to get the Facebook terms mapped to FOAF and > DCterms terms. Please see my blog at > > http://tw.rpi.edu/weblog/2010/04/28/putting-open-facebook-data-into-linked-data-cloud/ > . > > Comments are welcome. > > best, > > -- > Li Ding > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~dingl/ <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/%7Edingl/> > > > > > Matthew Rowe, MEng > PhD Student > OAK Group > Department of Computer Science > University of Sheffield > m.r...@dcs.shef.ac.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > foaf-dev mailing list > foaf-...@lists.foaf-project.org > http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/foaf-dev >