Re: linking facebook data

Hi

First just want to say Li that your app is cool. Good job.

> Hello,
>
> Am cc'ing the foaf-dev mailing (sorry for cross posting)...
>
> I just had a look at your fb graph API -> foaf rdf service[1],  
> firstly cool stuff, but I have a few points I will address below.
>
> I recall Matthew Rowe[2] making a similar service a few years ago  
> which spat out foaf data for a user's fb account, and I recall fb  
> getting annoyed. Am guessing they mentally might have shifted since  
> danbri's good work in getting them involve with SW tech  (great work  
> once again by danbri ... *tonnes of applause), I guess we will find  
> out soon ...

Indeed it appears that their opinion of 'open data' has shifted.  
Facebook refused to list the FOAF Generator, which Mischa mentions, in  
their application directory as they were concerned about having  
'their' data exported from Facebook for use by 3rd parties. You can  
use it here:

http://ext.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~u0057/FoafGenerator

With the above app you are able to export your entire social graph  
from fb, thus capturing all your relationships in RDF using FOAF. I  
guess that with the Open Graph Protocol you can't get such information.

>
>> I just built a demo that provides dereferenable HTTP URIs (with
>> RDF/XML data) for Facebook data using data retrieved from the  
>> recently
>> announced  Graph API by Facebook.  see
>> http://sam.tw.rpi.edu/ws/face_lod.html
>>
>> In the demo, I observed inconsistent term usage between the Facebook
>> data  API (JSON) and open graph protocol vocabulary. There is also
>> some good potential to get the Facebook terms mapped to FOAF and
>> DCterms terms. Please see my blog at
>> http://tw.rpi.edu/weblog/2010/04/28/putting-open-facebook-data-into-linked-data-cloud/
>> .
>>
>> Comments are welcome.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> -- 
>> Li Ding
>> http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~dingl/
>>
>


Matthew Rowe, MEng
PhD Student
OAK Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
m.rowe@dcs.shef.ac.uk