[Sigia-l] Distributed thesaurus?

[Eric Scheid]

From: Travis Wilson <trav at ciaheadquarters.com> (22/9/02 3:30 AM)

>XFML is the most promising recent development effort I've seen in this 
>area, but I wonder if anyone has seen another that might be a potential 
>standard. I'm looking at Karl while I ask this, but of course it's an open 
>question.

A somewhat related project is the FOAF RDF schema being developed. It's a 
distributed schema where each person describes themselves (their name, 
nick, URL, picture, etc), and provides links to other FOAF RDFs for 
people they know.

http://rdfweb.org/foaf/
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
http://diveintomark.org/public/foaf.rdf

e.

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