Alexandre Passant

I forgot to mention it on my previous post, but PHOAF v0.4 is available^[1].

As I'm finally satisfied with the code I wrote, here's a first public version of FOAFMap.net, a "not-beta Semantic Web2.0 geolocation mashup" (nice, isn't it ?!).

Regarding the previous version of the tool, here are the main improvements:

I've just added support for Relationship vocabulary in PHOAF, so that the knows() method now recognise all Relationship properties (as they are subproperties of foaf:knows()).

I was wondering how such subproperties and inferencing could be handled in

I've updated PHOAF in CVS last week-end, and also as a v0.3 release.

Here's the changelog:

I've updated PHOAF so that it now includes RAP 0.9.3, especially for bugfixes as I don't use SPARQL in the library. I've also added a few methods I forgot to implement before, as getHomepage(), plus the usual bugfixes.

PHOAF v0.2 can be downloaded here.

I mentionned about one month ago I wrote a frontend to RAP, called PHOAF, to easilly query FOAF files in PHP5.

After reading this tutorial by Ian Davis about parsing FOAF files with PHP - which is also a good introduction to RDF and FOAF -, I started to write a PHP5 library to easilly retrieve informations from FOAF files.

The goal of PHOAF is to provide a set of functions to get information from a FOAF file without any knowledge about FOAF or RDF.

Eg: