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last updated at 2008-03-25 22:26
KjetilK: I just discovered it has OWL, which seems to make a good candidate for Linking Open Data
KjetilK: E.g. http://spire.umbc.edu/ontologies/taxa/Ochotona_curzoniae.owl
 
tommorris: "Informal lunch for contributors of the DataPortability Project and those interested to learn more about it."
tommorris: Sunday April 6 2008 - 12.30pm - 3.00pm
 
yvesr: Example result http://moustaki.org/resources/lastfm.xml
yvesr: The results are a bit disapointing, compared to a plain metadata lookup against musicbrainz, in most of the cases - I guess it is mainly due to their "quest for the ultimate canonical title", whereas they should emphasise having unique URIs for unique things (artists, tracks, albums, etc.)
 
 
 
bblfish: "Microsoft announced the release of the Windows Live Contacts API, which web developers can use to enable their users to transfer and share their Windows Live Contacts in a safe and secure way. Starting today, Microsoft is working with Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged and LinkedIn to exchange functionally-similar Contacts APIs, allowing all partners to create a safe, secure two-way street for users to move their relationships between our r
bblfish: talk of API makes me think this is non RESTful
bblfish: all that is needed to get foaf and linked data to compete is a way to have resources return different representations depening on the client identity
bblfish: Ok so mahound lets me know that this is restful http://dev.live.com/contacts/ , but the problem remains that it seems very centralised
 
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