Alternative suggestion from the spectator seat:
> Let's assume we want to build a Web API that exposes information about persons
> and their friends. Using schema.org, your data would look somewhat like this:
>
> </markus> a schema:Person ;
> schema:knows </alice> ;
> ...
> schema:knows </zorro> .
>
> All this information would be available in the document at /markus (please
> let's not talk about hash URLs etc. here, ok?). Depending on the number of
> friends, the document however may grow too large.
</markus> a schema:Person ;
rdfs:seeAlso </markus/friends/> .
</markus/friends/> foaf:topic schema:knows .
And in </markus/friends/> (or its redirection target):
</markus> schema:knows </alice>,
...
</zorro> .
Replace foaf:topic with appropriate schema: properyy if necessary.
Tore