Drupal gets FOAF

Submitted by cel4145 on October 20, 2004 - 10:43.

Of note today, an advancement in the social network capabilities of Drupal. Bryght has released a FOAF module for Drupal:

Bryght's foaf.module enables:

  1. automatically importing/synchronizing profile information between any Drupal-powered sites
  2. importing profile information from external FOAF files
  3. exporting a FOAF file based on a user's profile

In addition, if the buddylist.module is installed, the exported FOAF information will also list your "buddies".

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FOAF Questionnaire

Submitted by shale on October 20, 2004 - 16:47.

Is anyone out there using FOAF, and if so how?

Several sites (including Blog

Submitted by Boris Mann@bryg... on October 20, 2004 - 19:55.

Several sites (including Blogware and Tribe.net) implement FOAF. I actually don't care much for the format (which is RDF-based), but we've recognized that today it is the only common format for structured interchange of profile data.

The (more) interesting part about our module is that it also enables synchronization of your own profile data between any sites that have it enabled -- FOAF in this case is just an interchange format.

So think of this as a step towards getting some more meaningful uses of FOAF.