foaf and opml

I’m trying to get a better understanding of the semantic web and since this is quite a hard and complex subject i thought i’d start with studying the foaf-project and do some tinkering with that. But when reading the available documentation on foaf i get the feeling that this project is dying a slow death (i might be wrong…).

While reading the available documentation i remembered the ‘what cars did you own opml miniproject’ some months ago. Structured personal information related together. A bit like the foaf idea.

One and one is two. It should be possible to do a foaf project with opml. You could display your personal information in outlines and link to the foaf-opml files of your friends with opml-inclusions. Using an opml browser (i.e. grazr) you could easily browse from your own friends to your friends-friends to your friends-friends-friends etc. (you should stumble on yourself in 10 hops i think ;) ).

What do you think, should we build an opml-friends-network just for the fun of it?

update: like this i.e. : Pieter Overbeeke (yeah, it’s kind of sad, i link to myself…)

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ps. It takes 2 to tango, wanna be my friend? ;)

Update: Found a friend

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