Re: [foaf-dev] Facebook FOAF Generator - Redux

On 12 Jul 2011, at 20:58, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> On 7/12/11 8:48 PM, Matthew Rowe wrote:
>>>> I wonder if instead of :
>>>> 
>>>> rdf:about="#100002283130920"
>>>> 
>>>> You can use the graph URI?
>>>> 
>>>> http://graph.facebook.com/100002283130920
>> I was considering doing something along those lines but was wondering if it would be correct as when the URI is dereferenced it would not return the instance in the FOAF file but would instead retrieve the description located at the above URL.
>> 
>> Would one solution could be to include an rdfs:seeAlso predicate to associate each foaf:Person instance within the exported file with the above URL?
>> 
> 
> You transform the Facebook graph into a Linked Data graph [1].
> 
> Links:
> 
> 1. 
> http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/entity/http/graph.facebook.com/100002283130920 
> -- Description Document URL
> 2. 
> http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/entity/http/graph.facebook.com/100002283130920 
> -- Subject Proxy/Wrapper style of de-referencable URI

I don't think this solves the above issue though. It is just a means to consume Linked Data in the browser. What I was considering was the difference between what Melvin suggested previously:

<foaf:Person rdf:about="http://graph.facebook.com/100002283130920">
	<foaf:name>...</foaf:name>
</foaf:Person>

and

<foaf:Person rdf:about="#100002283130920">
	<foaf:name>...</foaf:name>
	<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://graph.facebook.com/100002283130920"/>
</foaf:Person>

Not sure which would be best to use. With the former the resource being discussed is contained within the FOAF document, such that when the URI is dereferenced an alternative resource description is returned. In the latter case the resource description is associated with additional information located elsewhere - accessible via FYN.


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