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crschmidt in ljfoaf

FOAF Update Patch

Feb 17, 2005 20:44

Since I now have someone to pass the torch onto for the time being, I took the time to put together a decent patch for LiveJournal's FOAF output. There are a number of distinct aspects to improving LiveJournal's FOAF output: in this patch, I include all of them. This entry includes an annotated version of the patch, and what I'm changing, and why ( Read more... )

Comments 7

theorb February 18 2005, 02:30:59 UTC

Thank you.

crschmidt February 18 2005, 02:45:16 UTC

Hey, this is the easy part. the hard part is getting someone to care.

poll duck1123 February 18 2005, 03:47:36 UTC

Would doing an online poll in this community (almost a petition) to have these changes committed do any good? Make it a meme and unleash it on Live Journal, we'll have 36,000 "signitures" by tuesday. :)

There really needs to be a foaf:avitar or something similar.

Re: poll crschmidt February 18 2005, 12:40:55 UTC

I'm still considering just using an LJ namespace for some stuff, like the "avatar" part. But I do like the idea of trying to get this stuff into play in the FOAF namespace. Since foaf:logo isn't really used by anyone, LJ can basically define that.

I doubt we'd get 36,000 signatures. No matter how much you memed it, I doubt you'd get more than 3 dozen or so, since that's the sum total of people who have demonstrated an interest in FOAF on LiveJournal in the past.

Question fallen_x_ashes February 18 2005, 07:14:15 UTC

Why not include the subtitle as well?

Re: Question crschmidt February 18 2005, 12:38:27 UTC

What property would that be? I'm doing my best not to add any more namespaces here, because for every line of code added to a patch, it's an extra week of waiting, in my experience. That would be two lines.

mart March 15 2005, 09:48:42 UTC

Wasn't it decided before that the LiveJournal user “name” was unsuitable for use as a foaf:name because most users just put rubbish in this field? What's changed?