FOAF additions

[crschmidt]

Alright, I'm putting together updates to the FOAF information for the next version. I can't make any promises as to when it will go in, live, or even be passed onto a developer - this is a very rough draft of changes that I'm working on making.

Let me know if there's anything I missed.

Additions:

Comments

[andrewducker]

Any chance of the external users stuff?

[crschmidt]

Explain what you mean? I don't know what "external users" stuff means in this context?

[andrewducker]

You mean you aren't reading my mind?

Sorry, in the "what else would you like to see in FOAF?" post you put up a few days ago I said that it would be nice to be able to point to people outside of LJ and that one way to do that would be to allow for an 'insert point' where users could enter their own FOAF segment to be included in the one that LJ generates.

Am I making any sense?

[crschmidt]

Wow, I totally missed that comment.

I don't think we'll ever see something like that: that's basically what the extra URL is supposed to provide. Most tools use this as an extra source of information, so people would know to look there for more information.

So, you're probably better finding someplace to host your extra FOAF file, and then just linking to it from your LJ FOAF file.

This is why, though, I plan to make linking to an external source independant of turning the FOAF file on/off. That way, you can have your LJ FOAF file AND your external one, without having to maintain one from the other.

[andrewducker]

Aah, I didn't realise the file was in _addition_ to the generated one.

Cool.

[crschmidt]

It's not yet - but that is a change I plan to make, for exactly this reason :)