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RE: [dao-forum] FOAF and DAO Deliverables

To: "DigitalArtOntology" <dao-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:30:39 +0100
Message-id: <BKELLDAGKABIOCHDFDBPEEFGFGAA.danny666@virgilio.it>
PS. there is ongoing (this morning!) discussion about providing better
linkage between a person and their FOAF file by typing it as class
foaf:PersonalProfileDocument    (01)

http://rdfweb.org/pipermail/rdfweb-dev/2004-February/012560.html    (02)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny666@virgilio.it]
> Sent: 04 February 2004 12:32
> To: DigitalArtOntology
> Subject: RE: [dao-forum] FOAF and DAO Deliverables
>
>
>
> > Could we clarify then; foaf data, for example, 'Kenneth Fields' is
> > located at:
> >   http://cemc.ccom.edu.cn/htmlDocs/foaf.rdf
> > The ontology, or RDF Vocabulary Description for FOAF (RDFS/OWL) is at:
> > http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
> >
> > What are opinions here -
> > Will we have an 'RDF Vocabulary Description for DAO (RDFS/OWL)?
> > This will be authored in???
> > Located at: http://dao.cim3.net/files/pub/?
>
> It's my impression that the location of the files is secondary to
> the statements they contain. The fact that you can use the http
> transport mechanism on http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ to retrieve
> some relevant data is orthogonal to the use of that resource
> identifier in logical statements.
>
> For example, the file at:
>
> http://dannyayers.com/misc/foaf/foaf.rdf
>
> contains statements including one that says (in effect):
>
> [Danny] foaf:knows [Kenneth]
>
> and the file at:
>
> http://cemc.ccom.edu.cn/htmlDocs/foaf.rdf
>
> includes:
>
> [Kenneth] foaf:knows [Barbara Fields-Bernstein]
>
> Although there are related issues of trust & provenence etc,
> these statements are effectively independent of those two
> addresses. They are both talking about the same foaf:Person
> called Kenneth.
>
> > FOAF is people centric. A piece of music belongs to someone, a document
> > belongs to someone,
> > a intellectual piece of property belongs to someone. So people can set
> > a foaf file in their home directory
> > that describes all there products, works, theories (hasGreatIdea),
> > partOfAssociation (ISEA).
> >
> > So this will then create the many cross relationships in our ontology
> > from some Person to say,
> > Group/Association/MediaArtsAssociation/ISEA .
>
> Yep, that sounds a good way to go.
>
> btw, check out:
> http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/foaf/explorer/?foaf=http%3A%2F%2Fcemc.cc
om.edu.cn%2FhtmlDocs%2Ffoaf.rdf    (03)

Cheers,
Danny.    (04)


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