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Another mistake we have learned from is that we made a huge effort to correctly model and describe our data as semantically accurately as possible. Nobody cares enough about our data to explain to their tool what an “ECS Person” is. We’re in the process of adding in the more generic schemes like FOAF and SIOC etc.

Building the semantic web one tag at a time…

The hyperdata Address Book project being developed here is meant to be the equivalent for foaf that BlogReaders are for RSS. It is a specialised Semantic Web browser that follows foaf documents around the web, building a distributed open social network. It is also a foaf editor, which you can use to publish your foaf files to an ftp/scp server.

DOAC (Description Of A Career) is a vocabulary to descripve professional capabilities of a worker. It has been designed to be compatible with the Europass Curriculum so those can be generated from a FOAF DOAC file.

Now that the RDFa syntax is a full standard, and organisations like Yahoo! and Google are starting to index the data (see Google announces support for RDFa and Yahoo! into semantic web), it's worth putting more of your own data into your web-pages, by way of RDFa. A simple place to start is to modify your home-page or blog profile so that it includes FOAF information.