representative-hcard-formats

representative hCard formats

Examples of formats for indicating representative person info about pages that represent individual people. Part of the representative-hcard effort.

formats

FOAF autodiscovery

In foaf link rel syntax - for linking to one's foaf from homepage on Thu Dec 12 00:44:28 UTC 2002, Dan Brickley proposed:

<link rel="meta" type="application/rdf+xml" title="FOAF" href="foaf.rdf" />

for linking from a page that represents an individual to info about that person in a separate resource "foaf.rdf" in the same directory as the current page. Dan clarifies:

If we stick with the convention of a link title of "FOAF", we can get away with not worrying too much about defining an html profile for rel="meta".

BTW I'd also recommend we encourage folk to use the filename foaf.rdf

From this we infer the key elements of this format are:

• MUST link element in the head of the document
• MUST type="application/rdf+xml"
• MUST rel-meta - meta value on the rel attribute
• MUST title="FOAF"
• SHOULD href="foaf.rdf"

Some problems with this approach:

• requires use of the link element and thus write access to the head of the document
• meta rel value is too generic, and doesn't really mean "person", or "representative"

see also

• representative-hcard
• representative-hcard-examples
• representative-hcard-formats
• representative-hcard-brainstorming
• hcard