On Jan 11, 2004, at 9:55 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Ted Leung wrote:
If we had some kind of record (like a FOAF file) that we stick krell, and planet* and whatever data in, that would be good. We're starting to have data all over the place. members.txt, urls.txt, and probably more that I'm not remembering. Be nice to have an authoritative file that can generate all the rest (in their existing formats so as not to break working code).
Sander and I have been mulling over using LDAP for this purpose. It
supports all of the kinds of data we need, is integrated with all sorts of
authentication mechanisms, and is supported by many languages. From that we
could have tools to emit the existing files, and people could start to
migrate their tools to work directly off of the LDAP database.
I'm not fully up on LDAP -- can I just put pointer records into it?. Ben and I were talking about how the krell stuff works -- basically urls.txt is a file of pointers to remote files which krell scrapes for ICBM, name, blog, and potentially other information. This is appealing for the data that should be under the control of the individual as opposed to the foundation. So perhaps the LDAP records for someone could have a urls.txt kind of pointer, and contain or point to foundation specific records.
Just thinking out loud. Also the planet folks are talking about building cross planet links, etc using FOAF.
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