[uf-discuss] Re: XFN is getting smoked by FOAF

[Tom Morris]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Toby A Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>  > So it would seem that XFN provides a richer and lighter-weight set of
>  > information and would be a better choice for social networks.
>
>  XFN provides a richer set of *relationship* information, but FOAF provides
>  more than relationship information -- it also includes:
>

It's not a choice - you can use both, and you can extend your FOAF
with other predicates - for example, the Relationships Ontology:
http://vocab.org/relationship/

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Tom Morris
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