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
linkelement in theheadof the document - MUST
type="application/rdf+xml" - MUST rel-meta -
metavalue on therelattribute - MUST
title="FOAF" - SHOULD
href="foaf.rdf"
Some problems with this approach:
- requires use of the
linkelement and thus write access to theheadof the document metarel value is too generic, and doesn't really mean "person", or "representative"
FOAF primaryTopic
FOAF also has a facility for specifying the primary topic for a page.
<link rel="foaf:primaryTopic" href="#somehcard" />
For people without access to the <head> of a page, an <a> element could be used instead.