Hi Giovanni,
We weren't really intending to build a Google Social Graph equivalent,
that was Libby's observation. But, I would guess that we have lower
coverage (we only inter FOAF files, and we only have about 3 million
files indexed currently), but we're standards compliant and we have
more variety of information via the FOAF source.
- Steve
On 30 Nov 2008, at 13:40, Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
Hi Misha,
would you have a comparison between this and the google social graph
api?
I understand that also follows FOAF links (e.g. see livejournal etc).
I guess they're less specialized however?
Giovanni
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
Am mailing round to announce some FOAF related services Garlik are
hosting
at foaf.qdos.com.
1. FOAF Validator[1]: We have put together a page which can be used
to
validate foaf documents. We put this together based on common
errors we
found in FOAF documents online. Any suggestions for further tests are
welcomed.
2. FOAF Reverse Search[2]: This service outputs foaf:knows
relationships
from our KB stating who claims to know the foaf:Person in question.
You can
present the service with either a foaf:Person URI like so:
http://foaf.qdos.com/reverse/?path=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card%23i
or you can search for an Inverse Function Property (IFP) if the
foaf:Person
URI is not known for example, you can find who claims to know the
foaf:Person with the following homepage: http://plugin.org.uk/
like so (notice the inclusion of the GET argument ifp):
http://foaf.qdos.com/reverse/?path=http://plugin.org.uk/&ifp=
Given the decentralised nature of foaf data, this allows data to be
presented regarding who claims to know a foaf:Person.
3. FOAF Social Verification [3]: This allows you to make use of the
foaf
social network to act as a whitelist for blog, email, and other
online
activity
4. FOAF Viewer: You can also use our GUI [5] to visual your foaf
network.
For example, see Steve's foaf file here :
http://foaf.qdos.com/find/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fplugin.org.uk
5. FOAF pinger: And finally, If we dont have your foaf file in our
KB, you
can use our ping [4] service to upload your foaf:Document to our KB
so that
you can make use of our services.
Any thoughts/suggestions welcomed,
Mischa
[1] http://foaf.qdos.com/validator/
[2] http://foaf.qdos.com/reverse
[3] http://foaf.qdos.com/verify-demo & http://foaf.qdos.com/verify-about
[4] http://foaf.qdos.com/find/
[5] http://foaf.qdos.com/ping
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Mischa Tuffield
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Homepage - http://mmt.me.uk/
FOAF - http://mmt.me.uk/foaf.rdf
