Re: [foaf-dev] How to let the world know my profile?

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 11:29 +0200, Frans Knibbe wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have created a FOAF profile for myself and I have put it online. It is 
> hosted by one of my company's web servers. I am currently trying to 
> persuade my colleagues to publish FOAF profiles for themselves too.
> 
> I now wonder: How can I firmly place my profile data in the web of 
> linked data? I have just registered my URI at www.foaf-search.net. Would 
> that be sufficient to make my personal data discoverable from all places 
> on the web? Or is it wise to register at other places too?
> 
> Thanks,
> Frans
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Hi Frans,

Best starting point in my opinion is to make sure that you have a
relationship between your FOAF URI and another e.g., foaf:knows. This
way, your URI is connected to other graphs, and opens up possibilities
for discovery.

Submitting a URI to a service is a centralized approach and it is one
aspect to being discovered.

There are many places to submit, so, I'll just give one of my
favourites ;) Sindice [1]. See also the Inspector tool. I may be
mistaken about this, but I think it eventually crawls new URIs once you
inspect.

[1] http://sindice.com/

-Sarven