MyBlogLog, FOAF, and DataPortability
J. Trent Adams
I'm not sure if everyone on this distro follows the Technical list,
but there was a great thread between about MyBlogLog and FOAF the
other day. [1]
What was really kewl about it, IMO, was that feedback from
DataPortability Regular Julian Bond made its way (via Daniela) to Ian
Kennedy at MyBlogLog. First, Julian suggested some enhancements (that
were made), then he followed it up with a bug report (that was fixed).
Basically, I see this as a small, but important feather in the
Project's cap. Smart people (eg. Julian), working on common projects
(eg. on FOAF), with good connections (eg. Daniela), gathered together
(eg. DataPortability Project) efficiently streamlines the suggestion +
update feedback process.
... now, we just need to make it repeatable. :)
Thanks Julian, Daniela, and Ian.
=jtrentadams
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/dataportabilityactiontechnical/browse_thread/thread/58f471e12e2d88df?hl=en
Julian Bond
>Basically, I see this as a small, but important feather in the
>Project's cap. Smart people (eg. Julian), working on common projects
>(eg. on FOAF), with good connections (eg. Daniela), gathered together
>(eg. DataPortability Project) efficiently streamlines the suggestion +
>update feedback process.
>
>... now, we just need to make it repeatable. :)
Thanks for the kind words.
This ties in with my ranting about DataPortability being a clearing
house for people and suggestions to anyone and everyone in the data
portability standards and implementation communities. What I slightly
sarcastically called "noisy and irritating people".
I had a thought this morning about DP being almost like a Craigslist or
classified Ads posting area for help needed in data portability areas.
Here's some examples.
- PHP Programmers: Microformats need a push to get libraries written in
common programming languages to parse out the data from marked up pages.
There's currently no library to extract XFN data in PHP.
- Standards Development People: OpenSocial is currently in the middle of
spec-ing out a RESTful API including People Data and Activity Data. Get
in there and help them do it.
- Standards Documentation: XRDS is becoming more and more useful. They
need some documentation of Service types to help turn it into a full
Service Catalogue.
- Mashable.com have got rapidly improving profile pages. They really
need marking up with Microformats. Please email ad...@mashable.com and
ask for it.
SeeAlso
http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Community+Help+Classifieds
http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Standards+Community+DataPo
rtability+Suggestions
http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Web+Site+DataPortability+S
uggestions
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