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Why publish FOAF

This document briefly describes what data we want to publish and why FOAF might or might not be the right format to publish this kind of data.

Contents:

1. The Use Cases

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2. The Data

These use cases require information about researchers other than the current user of the VRE and research groups other than those that the current user is directly or indirectly involved with and requires than this information is available to the

Some of these details, particularly the personal details of the researcher require explicit informed consent before they are [[TODO]]

3. FOAF basics

FOAF is a flavour of RDF for describing individuals and groups and the relationships between them.

Encoding this information in RDF means that all information is optional. Users need not give out any personal information if they wish to publish information about their research group and institution.

FOAF has special handling to keep email addresses from spammers.

4. Advantages of FOAF

5. Disadvantages of FOAF

6. References

• [1] http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford Semantic wiki page for University of Oxford, into which RDF and links to RDF can be directly embedded

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