Re: [foaf-dev] What is the best way to edit a FOAF profile?

On 4 May 2011 17:26, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe-TS+09A0Nn+lmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote:
> Melvin and Mischa,
>
> Thanks for you tips. I will keep an eye out for the Foafbuilder. I could not
> find a way of editing an RDF file with the Tabulator. Foaf.me is nice too,
> but it does not support editing FOAF files (yet).
>
> At the moment I can not use SPARQL yet, as I don't have a database with a
> SPARQL end point yet. Besides that, I want to demonstrate the principles of
> Linked Data to my colleagues (being one eyed in the land of the blind). I
> would like to show how easy it is to publish data as Linked Data. Creating a
> basic personal FOAF file is easy, and so is putting it on a web server. Only
> changing the FOAF file is not that easy, it seems. At least not for people
> that are not used to handling RDF.

BTW If you can turn on WebDAV you can use an editor like Amaya [1] to
edit (im not sure hat other webdav editors exist)

[1] http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

>
> Regards,
> Frans
>
> On 2011-05-04 13:48, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> <snip/>
> On 4 May 2011, at 12:15, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>
> On 4 May 2011 13:09, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe-TS+09A0Nn+lmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> This is my first message to this list...
>
> I am just getting started with FOAF, using it as an example of how
>
> individuals can contribute to the web of Linked Data. I would like to
>
> persuade the people that I know to publish their profiles. So I am
>
> trying to find a user friendly way of creating a FOAF  profile and
>
> updating it.
>
> As a first step, I use the FOAF-a-Matic. That works nicely, giving me a
>
> small profile to start with. But then I want to expand it. I want to
>
> share more information about myself, and link to people I know that also
>
> have a FOAF profile. That means I need an editor for my FOAF file. I
>
> have tried Morla, which does a good job of being user friendly. It shows
>
> the file contents as a table of subject-predicate-object triples. I can
>
> add the FOAF RDFS to the editor, after which it becomes easy to add or
>
> change the profile. But I notice a problem with Morla: it introduces
>
> absolute file paths in the file. By just opening the FOAF file and
>
> saving it without editing it, Morla has introduced file:/// resources. I
>
> believe that is undesirable.
>
> So my question is: Can someone recommend a nice tool for editing FOAF files?
>
> SPARQL 1.1 has insert an update ability.  That's probably the best way.
>
> There's also WebDAV
>
>
> I too am a big fan of SPARQL 1.1, but I doubt that is the solution here. We
> wrote a UI to help you do such things, but we are currently moving hardware
> about to repurpose. It should live at http://foafbuilder.qdos.com/ I will
> email this thread when I get the service back up and running. Link to slides
> [1] (sorry -- service is currently down).
> Furthermore, I have been meaning to open-source the UI for a while now....
> Must get that done...
> iirc, Melvin's http://foaf.me/
> and there is also a foaf editor in the Timbl's tabulator iirc too ...
> Mischa
> [1] http://mmt.me.uk/slides/lod24022010/ <-- to get an idea what what i
> looks like, when there is no man-digging page :)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frans
>
>
>
>
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