[rdfweb-dev] Typepad's use of Knows

[Dan Brickley]

I had this concern, then I remembered that within the TypePad UI, the
only way you add a person is via an "add a friend" hyperlink. This may
not be obvious from the outside though...

Dan

(hoping to catch up on all this mail before week end)

* Julian Bond <julian_bond at voidstar.com> [2003-08-28 17:42+0100]
> Typepad have used foaf:knows in a slightly odd way that some people have
> questioned. eg
> 
> <foaf:Person>
> ...
>   <foaf:knows>
>     <foaf:Person>
>       <foaf:name>Foo</foaf:name>
>       <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://bar.com/" />
>     </foaf:Person>
>   </foaf:knows>
> </foaf:Person>
> 
> Where Foo at URL Bar is an entry in a blogroll. So this is not really
> about a Person at all and devalues (IMHO) foaf:knows. Another way of
> coding this might have been something like:-
> 
> <foaf:blogroll>
>   <foaf:Document rdf:resource="http://bar.com/">
>     <foaf:name>Foo</foaf:name>
>   </foaf:Document>
> </foaf:blogroll>
> 
> Would this have been better? What would have been the process for
> creating foaf:blogroll?
> 
> 
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