Browsing your FOAF social graph

As a way to demo some thoughts from one of my previous posts, I wrote a small python script that query my main FOAF URI to retrieve my other URIs (flickr, twitter …) and related RDF files, then SPARQL each of them to retrieve relationships and creates an XML file according the needs of Graph Gear.

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Live demo here. If you want to run in on your own data, just grab it there. The way is defines color mappings is a bit ugly, so if anyone wants to hack a better regexp for it, I’d be glad to have feedback.

February 6, 2008 | Filed Under Semantic Web |  

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6 Responses to “Browsing your FOAF social graph”

  1. Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes on February 7th, 2008 3:19 pm

    Nice! Of course, it would be much nicer if you had smushed the people as well - i am sure you have many connections that use several services.

  2. Alex on February 7th, 2008 6:13 pm

    Thanks.
    Indeed, would have been better with people-smushing with sha1, and maybe add an optional “same name = same people” for small networks, as some services do not export it.
    Or even retrieve FOAF files from people on my blog export to check if they point to their flickr / twitter / … URI and identify them.
    I should also look at Knowee, which has this kind of rules.

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    Nice happy face ;)

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