Thanks for the notice, Aidan! I've pushed a simple fix to exclude mbox_sha1sum for users without an email address "on file". We'll make sure to roll it into our next release.
Let us know if there's anything else we can clean up! On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Hogan, Aidan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Firstly, warm thanks for exporting RDF/XML. I've had a look at some of > the FOAF/SIOC exports and I can safely say that you've done a very nice > job. > > There's one small problem though that it would be great to see fixed. It > seems that for users who don't enter an email, you export the value [1] > for mbox_sha1sum: the sha1 of the 'mailto:' string. Sample documents > include [2,3]. This is problematic for reasons discussed in [4]. > Ideally, if you don't have the email for a user, you should just omit > the foaf:mbox_sha1sum value. > > If you've any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. > > (CC'd are the pedantic-web group who co-ordinate efforts on improving > the quality of RDF published on the Web - http://pedantic-web.org/) > > Cheers, > Aidan > > [1] 08445a31a78661b5c746feff39a9db6e4e2cc5cf > [2] http://identi.ca/whataboutbob/foaf > [3] http://www.opensourcetweet.com/manishmittal/foaf > [4] http://pedantic-web.org/fops.html#ifps > _______________________________________________ > StatusNet-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev > -- James Walker :: http://walkah.net/ :: http://james.status.net/ _______________________________________________ StatusNet-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
