PUBLIC MARKS from "Xavier Lacot" with tag foaf

SMOB is a distributed / decentralised microblogging system built on RDF and Semantic Web technologies, mainly SIOC and FOAF. Currently, we have simple prototypes of a publishing and an aggregating service, less than 100 lines of PHP code each.

Now that the RDFa syntax document is in last call, and people like Yahoo! are starting to index the data, it's worth putting more of your own data into your web-pages, using RDFa. A simple place to start is to modify your home-page or blog profile so that it includes FOAF information.

Un script capable d'ouvrir le fichier FOAF d'une personne via Foaf Explorer. Le script fonctionne sous 2 conditions : l'entité décrite est du type foaf:Person et elle est définie par une URI externe (précisée par la propriété rdfs:idDefinedBy).

PingtheSemanticWeb.com is a web service archiving the location of recently created/updated FOAF, DOAP or SIOC RDF documents on the Web. If one of those documents is updated, its author can notify the service that the document have been updated by pinging it with the URL of the document. PingtheSemanticWeb.com is used by crawlers or other type of software agents to know when and where the latest updated FOAF, DOAP and SIOC documents can be found. So it requests a list of recently updated documents as a starting location to crawl the semantic web.

An introduction to parsing FOAF and RDF using the RAP parser for PHP