Re: [foaf-dev] Wishlists / requests for next rev of FOAF spec?

On 31 May 2012 03:00, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 30 May 2012 13:17, Michael Smethurst <Michael.Smethurst-IQarjmkfAM9aa/[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> >> Use a real URI e.g.
> >> http://twitter.com/foobar here, rather than a bNode. And although we
> >> have accountName and accountServiceHomepage (or whatever they're
> >> called) imho these days 90% of the value is usually in a simple link.
> >
> > yup, took your advice (via libby) on that with:
> > http://foafminster.heroku.com/people/30464103.ttl
> > would it be worth updating the foaf spec to include that advice?
>
> Yeah, it's about time we shipped a new one.
>
> Anyone else got suggestions? I'd like to align the basic addressbook
> stuff with Portable Contacts (and schema.org) and do some general
> tidying. Anything else?
>

From memory foaf : like / likes seemed to be taken positively

foaf : bitcoin was proposed, mind you we can simply do foaf : account
<bitcoin:1234....> ... so perhaps that can go on ice for the time being

on the (my) radar still is to clean up wot / the new web keys spec / webid
ontologies / dsig -- we probably do need to start thinking about a trust
and reputation system for the web, but it's a project in itself


>
> Dan
>
>
> ps. (continuing the original thread as a sideline)
> >> Having a list of these programme-related Twitter URLs gives a nice way
> >> of characterising other (less famous) users in terms of the celebs
> >> they (and their friends) follow or talk to - eg. for personalisation.
> >
> > yeah, was my thought. should be able to directly recommend programmes
> based
> > on followings / likes etc
> > for now just accounts linked to programmes. would be nice to be able to
> map
> > all programme contributors to social media accounts. follow stephen fry >
> > get programmes with stephen fry recommended. follow manchester city > get
> > recommendations of football programmes featuring that team. comedians,
> music
> > artists, politicians etc etc
>
> Any idea what the situation is with G+? There are various curated
> circles, but not sure if there are APIs yet that give you links to
> wikipedia/freebase and so on.
>
> >> You can get some of it from Wikipedia or other sources but last time I
> >> looked, Wikipedia advised against adding Twitter URLs.
> >
> > spoke to a couple of wikipedians and apparently advice is to aim for one
> > link per person / org (usually the official site). understandable but the
> > musicbrainz approach to storing multiple external uris per thing is very
> > handy for identifier triangulation. one for wikidata?
>
> Wikidata - maybe. The core team don't want to "do content" at any
> level, including imposing a type hierarchy. But they could collect IDs
> even if the page template machinery doesn't pull them all into the
> viewable pages...
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