[rdfweb-dev] Proposal: Clean Up Your FOAF Week

[Julian Bond]

I'd like to make a proposal.

Clean Up Your FOAF Week

What I'm thinking is that we make a big effort to tidy, clean, validate 
and check our FOAF files. In the process we re-awaken interest in people 
who've forgotten they even had one and we get to evangelise again. This 
is obviously mainly aimed at people who create FOAF by hand but we 
should all bash away at the systems that create FOAF automatically as 
well.

It's an opportunity to clear out elements that are now deprecated and 
add elements that have appeared relatively recently.

Some things that need checking:-
- seeAlso (and other link elements like img) that point at 404 not found
- img and depiction that point at html instead of gif, jpg, png etc
- loose Person entries that were meant to be foaf:knows
- changing mbox to mbox_sha1sum for other people
- including doc information, especially primaryTopic, topic, maker, made
- adding a signature if you haven't got one
- removing dummy, joke, test entries

For the people who like building tools, I'd dearly love to see a 
validator that moved up the stack a bit and checked this sort of 
recommended usage as well as just "is it valid RDF".

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