Re: [foaf-dev] FOAF for online profiles/accounts

Thanks Michael,
This is very helpful.  I noticed you said that the FOAF spec suggests using 
the alias foaf:account instead of foaf:holdsAccount, but you used the 
latter.  Also, will foaf:account cover both foaf:holdsAccount and 
foaf:onlineAccount?


I'm curious, why do you use dc:title and dc:Description twice below in your 
currentProject section?

And if I wanted to relate my pages on facebook to my foaf:account, I would 
nest that sioc:creator_of tag inside the foaf:OnlineAccount, correct?

Thanks so much,
Bruce

-----Original Message----- 
From: Michael Haschke
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:53 AM
To: foaf-dev-RyYwo1q5J+qsOXdr9/[email protected]
Subject: Re: [foaf-dev] FOAF for online profiles/accounts

Hello Bruce,

> LinkedIn and Facebook, within their foaf files.  I assume one would start 
> by
> enclosing this inside <holdsOnlineAccount></holdsOnlineAccount>

I'm using it like below, since I've found an similar example described
as "best practice" (I can't remember the source):

<foaf:Person rdf:about="http://michael.haschke.biz/">
    <foaf:holdsAccount>
    <foaf:OnlineAccount>
            <foaf:accountServiceHomepage 
rdf:resource="http://delicious.com/"/>
            <foaf:accountName>Haschek</foaf:accountName>
            <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://delicious.com/Haschek"
rdfs:label="Delicious"/>
            <rdfs:seeAlso>
                <rss:channel
rdf:about="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/Haschek/Accessibility">
                    <dc:title>Bookmarks "Accessibility"</dc:title>
                </rss:channel>
            </rdfs:seeAlso>
            <rdfs:seeAlso>
                <rss:channel
rdf:about="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/Haschek/Semantic+Web">
                    <dc:title>Bookmarks "Semantic Web"</dc:title>
                </rss:channel>
            </rdfs:seeAlso>
        </foaf:OnlineAccount>
    </foaf:holdsAccount>
</foaf:Person>

Note: the Foaf spec suggests to use the alias foaf:account instead of
foaf:holdsAccount.

> the service, and if I had a profile and 4 pages, on Facebook, I'd want to
> have links to the profile page and to my Facebook Pages.  What is the
> correct format for this?

I guess there are various possibilities to describe that. You could
use sioc:creator_of as relation from your foaf:OnlineAccount to the
facebook pages, or just foaf:made to relate from your foaf:Person to
that pages.

>         Lastly, the issue is CurrentProject.  As a web developer and web
> technology professional this is going to be a website which may or may not
> exist yet, as well as projects, that represent applications.  It wants to
> relate a Person to a Document.  So, to use this, should one produce some
> form of document on the web that will get updated as one progresses with 
> the
> project?  I could use advice on this.

If it is a (public) software project you could create a doap [1]
profile and relate to it via foaf:currentProject or foaf:pastProject.
But you could use most of foaf:Thing as object, e.g. foaf:Group or
just foaf:Poject. You could add simple descriptions of that stuff to
your foaf.rdf (not to your foaf:Person), e.g. simply using the dc [2]
vocabulary, and linking them from your foaf:Person. E.g.:

<foaf:Person rdf:about="http://haschek.eye48.com/">
<foaf:currentProject rdf:nodeID="project.pollyblogstew" />
</foaf:Person>
<foaf:Project rdf:nodeID="project.pollyblogstew">
<dc:title>Polly Blog Stew</dc:title>
<dc:description>Polly Blog Stew a german weblog about the Beastie
Boys.</dc:description>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://pollyblogstew.diving-robot.de/"/>
    <rdfs:seeAlso>
        <rss:channel rdf:about="http://pollyblogstew.diving-robot.de/feed/">
        <dc:title>Polly Blog Stew</dc:title>
        <dc:description>Atom-Feed of Polly Blog Stew, a german weblog
about the Beastie Boys.</dc:description>
        <foaf:maker rdf:resource="http://haschek.eye48.com/"/>
        </rss:channel>
    </rdfs:seeAlso>
    <foaf:depiction dc:description="Polly Blog Stew - T-Shirt-Motiv"
rdf:resource="http://pollyblogstew.diving-robot.de/media/pollyblogstew-shirt.jpg"/>
    <owl:sameAs
rdf:resource="http://pollyblogstew.diving-robot.de/index.php?sioc_type=site"
/>
</foaf:Project>

I doubt that using foaf is the best way to describe a working
portfolio, it lacks semantics what kind of project it is, e.g. client
work, personal, own startups, and what stuff you have done, planning,
programming, layouting, etc ... if anyone here can suggest a good
vocabulary to describe that stuff, please share.

If my examples are incorrect please tell me :)

[1] http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap
[2] http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

regards,
Haschek

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