{"id":216,"date":"2003-07-23T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/07\/23\/foaf-a-matic-describe-yourself-in-rdf\/"},"modified":"2003-07-23T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2003-07-23T16:37:38","slug":"foaf-a-matic-describe-yourself-in-rdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/07\/23\/foaf-a-matic-describe-yourself-in-rdf\/","title":{"rendered":"FOAF-a-matic &#8212; Describe yourself in RDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit to not having paid&nbsp;a lot of&nbsp;attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/rdfweb.org\/foaf\/\">&#8216;Friend of a Friend&#8217; format<\/a> to date, but a couple of things I&#8217;ve read recently made me pay a little more attention to this XML-based personal profile that can help connect you to others through the people you know. <\/p>\n<p>Today I stumbled on this &#8211; a simple yet useful javascript-based form that helps create&nbsp;an initial FOAF&nbsp;RDF file to get you started. &nbsp;Very handy! In theory, and in practice, XML was meant to be &#8216;human readable&#8217; and fairly straightforward to create. But little applications like this are so helpful &#8211; once you&#8217;ve structured data you already understand, expanding it by hand becomes much more straightforward. &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; via [<a href=\"http:\/\/topicexchange.com\/t\/social_software\/\">Channel &#8216;social_software&#8217;<\/a>] and [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markcarey.com\/web-dawn\/\">WebDawn<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit to not having paid&nbsp;a lot of&nbsp;attention to the &#8216;Friend of a Friend&#8217; format to date, but a couple of things I&#8217;ve read recently made me pay a little more attention to this XML-based personal profile that can help connect you to others through the people you know. Today I stumbled on this &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/07\/23\/foaf-a-matic-describe-yourself-in-rdf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOAF-a-matic &#8212; Describe yourself in RDF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}