On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:22:45PM -0400, John Black wrote: > 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? In short - no. Although many sites offer information - everything from limited information public RDF Query interfaces to sites like Plink that aggregate FOAF information, there is not, so far as I know, any site that hosts information like this in a way that you can publically query it and get RDF returned. Generally, when people are describing others with a sha1sum, there is an rdfs:seeAlso attached to the same person, which you can follow the link to for more information about that person. I may be missing something new, but as far as I know, there isn't a public "sha1 -> Person" converter. Sites like Plink and FOAF explorer allow you to run queries with a sha1sum, however, even though the results it returns are HTML and not RDF. This may be what you're looking for - I'm not sure. -- Christopher Schmidt crschmidt@crschmidt.net
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