RE: Email Address as FOAF term

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org [mailto:www-rdf-interest-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of John Black
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 3:23 PM
> To: Dan Brickley; Christopher Schmidt
> Cc: john.nj.davies@bt.com; Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk;
> Kianoush.Eshaghi@metadat.at; charles@w3.org; www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Email Address as FOAF term
> 
> 
> Suppose my software agent encounters a
> foaf:mbox or foaf:mbox_sha1sum term, how can my agent
> discover more information about the agent it has
> now "identified"? Is there a function that will take
> one of these values as input and return the subject?
> Is there a database where these terms are a key? How
> about Swoogle?
> 
> John
> 

We've had a beta site running for a while now that you can use for this
purpose. The human interface is:

	http://www.semanticwebsearch.com

There's also a web service API - you can read it about it at:

	http://www.semanticwebsearch.com/newquery.rsp


For example, here's a search for a foaf person by sha1sum using the web
api:

http://www.semanticwebsearch.com/webapi/query?q={[rdf%3atype]+%3fx1+[foa
f%3aPerson]}+AND+{[foaf%3ambox_sha1sum]+%3fx1+"a016f5df553cbe5c9a130ea39
e21b77a861a5661"}&rf=RDFXML&ps=10&match=%3fx1


At the moment, the site serves primarily as a testing ground for new
scalability and performance enhancements for RDF Gateway. Because of
this, you can't always count on it right now - we've been known to break
things while tinkering :-).

Regards,

Geoff Chappell