Re: foaf:openid and validity

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Matthias Quasthoff <
matthias--web@quasthoffs.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> just a short question on foaf:openid and validity: I used to have
>
>  ex:me foaf:openid ex:me
>>
>
Your Web ID should be a foaf:Person

http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebID

and your openid should be a URI (normally without fragment) tho I think
openid may have some treatment of fragments, ive not read up fully on that
part


>
> in my FOAF profile, since this is the way I use my identity URI. Since
> foaf:openid has range foaf:Document and foaf:Person is disjoint with
> foaf:Document, my FOAF profile is unfortunately inconsistent. Is there some
> special idea behind
>
>  foaf:openid rdfs:range foaf:Document
>>
>
> - as far as I understood OpenID, it is only about proving URI "ownership"
> and plays well with redirects etc. Hence, requiring non-literal range should
> be sufficient. This would allow for more flexible solutions than requiring
> an OpenID pointing to an information resource about its owner.
>
> A quick query using SQUIN showed that 71 out of some random 486 FOAF
> profiles had foaf:openid triples, but none of these except mine had
> subject=object.
>
> Best,
> Matthias
>
>