Re: Facebook Linked Data

Dear Jesse,

Thanks for the effort! I am just experimenting with this. If I request my own Vanity URL 

http://graph.facebook.com/sebastian.schaffert

The data I get back is:

@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-df-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix api: <tag:graph.facebook.com,2011:/> .
@prefix og: <http://ogp.me/ns#> .
@prefix fb: <http://ogp.me/ns/fb#> .
@prefix : <http://graph.facebook.com/schema/~/> .
@prefix user: <http://graph.facebook.com/schema/user#> .
</561666514#>
	user:id "561666514" ;
	user:name "Sebastian Schaffert" ;
	user:first_name "Sebastian" ;
	user:last_name "Schaffert" ;
	user:link <http://www.facebook.com/sebastian.schaffert>



Now the problem I see here is that the URI I requested is not the same URI as used in the subject of the RDF triples. Same holds btw if I request the data using the ID including "#". Which is bad in our case because we filter out triples that do not fulfill this condition to avoid importing "invalid" data.

Also, the data should IMHO contain a @base statement defining the base for the </561666514#>, because when importing the data the original URI is sometimes no longer available.

Lastly, the returned data does not contain the trailing "." required by turtle (see http://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/turtle/#sec-grammar-grammar).

Are there plans to fix this? For me, the more readable data would look like this:

@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-df-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix api: <tag:graph.facebook.com,2011:/> .
@prefix og: <http://ogp.me/ns#> .
@prefix fb: <http://ogp.me/ns/fb#> .
@prefix user: <http://graph.facebook.com/schema/user#> .
<http://graph.facebook.com/sebastian.schaffert>
	user:id "561666514" ;
	user:name "Sebastian Schaffert" ;
	user:first_name "Sebastian" ;
	user:last_name "Schaffert" ;
	user:link <http://www.facebook.com/sebastian.schaffert>



Am 23.09.2011 um 14:09 schrieb Jesse Weaver:

> APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
> 
> I would like to bring to subscribers' attention that Facebook now
> supports RDF with Linked Data URIs from its Graph API.  The RDF is in
> Turtle syntax, and all of the HTTP(S) URIs in the RDF are dereferenceable 
> in accordance with httpRange-14.  Please take some time to check it out.
> 
> If you have a vanity URL (mine is jesserweaver), you can get RDF about you:
> 
> curl -H 'Accept: text/turtle' http://graph.facebook.com/<vanity-url>
> curl -H 'Accept: text/turtle' http://graph.facebook.com/jesserweaver
> If you don't have a vanity URL but know your Facebook ID, you can use
> that instead (which is actually the fundamental method).
> 
> curl -H 'Accept: text/turtle' http://graph.facebook.com/<facebook-id>
> curl -H 'Accept: text/turtle' http://graph.facebook.com/1340421292
>> From there, try dereferencing URIs in the Turtle.  Have fun!
> 
> Jesse Weaver
> Ph.D. Student, Patroon Fellow
> Tetherless World Constellation
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~weavej3/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Sebastian
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