On 6/17/11 4:30 PM, Henry Story wrote:
In that space we have foaf you may say. But nobody really bothered
making it potent. For example the viral part is missing: we only just
wrote up a paper on how to make friending easy (viral)
http://bblfish.net/tmp/2011/05/09/
So what the linked data community needs is really to go back to basics
and build really useful applications of linked data, where you get
more and more people to join in by showing immediate benefits.
As I recall, WebID is a practical application of Linked Data (which
encompasses FOAF in this context) that's inherently viral :-)
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