Have you FOAFed yourself?
p2p news / p2pnet: Have you FOAFed yourself?
If not, why not?
A FOAF is a Friend of a Friend (FOAF) and the FOAF project, “is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do,” says the site.
And if you don’t have one, it’s time you did, says Web creator Tim Berners-Lee.
“If you are reading this blog and you have the ability to publish stuff on the web, then you can make a FOAF page, and you can give yourself a URI,” he says on his, well, blog, going on:
“A lot of people have published data about themselves without using a URI for themselves. This means I can’t refer to them in other data. So please take a minute to give yourself a URI. If you have a FOAF page, you may just have to add rdf:about=”" and voila you have a URI http://example.com/Alan/foaf.rdf#ABC. (I suggest you use your initials for the last bit). Check it works in the Tabulator.
Your URI will start with “http” (”so I can look it up using HTTP”) and it will have # in it, so the URI of your foaf file is different from the URI for you, he says, adding:
“Me, I make my foaf file in N3 and convert it to the foaf file in RDF. that’s my choice.
“The AWWW says that everything of importance deserves a URI. Go ahead and give yourself a URI. You deserve it!”
Also See:
blog – Give yourself a URI, January 25, 2006
February 8th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Yes, go ahead, put all your private information online for the governments to enjoy collecting and storing for as long as they wish, and use anything against you.
Go ahead, you deserve being deprived of privacy.
(Sarcasm)