[uf-discuss] How to avoid building erroneous social network graphs?

[Martin McEvoy]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:32 -0400, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Suppose that Alice has a web page on a social network.  The web page
> contains a representative hCard for Alice. On this web page Alice
> invites her friends to add comments to her page.  Bob is one of her
> friends, and he adds this comment:
> 
> <p>Hi Alice.  Nice page.  I would like to introduce you to my friend
> <a
> href="Sally.html" rel="friend">Sally</a> some time.</p>

Should Bob be marking up his comment in this way? its incorrect usage of
@rel, Its Bob who is saying that the current document has the
relationship of a friend of Sally which is wrong.

I guess it could be avoided if every comment had its own relative url
eg:

http://someblog.com/post#comment1
http://someblog.com/post#comment2
etc...

@rel values express the relationships between two urls...

then if Bobs comment was:

http://someblog.com/post#comment1

<div id="comment1">
<p>Bob said...</p>
<p>Hi Alice.  Nice page.  I would like to introduce you to my friend <a
href="Sally.html" rel="friend">Sally</a> some time.</p>
</div>

then the relationship would be http://someblog.com/post#comment1 (Bobs
comment) is a friend of Sally.html (Sally)

Thanks

Martin McEvoy