On 6/13/11 3:05 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote:
{
"id": "605980750",
"name": "Kingsley Uyi Idehen",
"first_name": "Kingsley",
"middle_name": "Uyi",
"last_name": "Idehen",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/kidehen";,
"username": "kidehen",
"gender": "male",
"locale": "en_US"
}
Some observations:
"id" attribute has value "605980750", this value means little on
its own outside Facebook's data space.
But add an @base and it would be totally fine. It's a relative ID. And
it's better, I contend, than your proposed
https://www.facebook.com/kidehen#this, because it doesn't rely on your
username staying the same, or http/https, or this hash/slash/query
minutia or even facebook.com <http://facebook.com> remaining the
domain name!
Yes, aesthetically there are many way to skin this rat :-)
The most important point though is that Facebook too is publishing
structured data that's fodder to transformation that serves other needs
e.g. high fidelity linked data.
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
President& CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
