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<code>rel="me"</code> is used on hyperlinks from one page about a person to other pages about that same person.
<code>rel="me"</code> is used on hyperlinks from one page about a person to other pages about that same person.


For example, [[User:Tantek|Tantek]]'s [http://pownce.com/t/ Pownce profile] has:
For example, [[User:Tantek|Tantek]]'s [http://tantek.com/ home page] has (markup simplified)


<pre><nowiki><a href="http://twitter.com/t" rel="me">Twitter Profile</a></nowiki></pre>
<source lang=html4strict><a href="http://twitter.com/t" rel="me">Twitter Profile</a></source>
 
And his Twitter profile itself has (markup simplified)
 
<source lang=html4strict><a href="http://tantek.com/" rel="me">http://tantek.com/</a></source>
 
Thus establishing a bi-directional rel-me link and confirming that the two URLs represent the same person.


Publishers can use the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator XFN creator] form to create rel-me hyperlinks.
Publishers can use the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator XFN creator] form to create rel-me hyperlinks.

Revision as of 04:00, 12 June 2009

rel="me"

XFN 1.1 introduced the "me" rel value which is used to indicate profile equivalence and for identity-consolidation.

rel="me" is used on hyperlinks from one page about a person to other pages about that same person.

For example, Tantek's home page has (markup simplified)

<a href="http://twitter.com/t" rel="me">Twitter Profile</a>

And his Twitter profile itself has (markup simplified)

<a href="http://tantek.com/" rel="me">http://tantek.com/</a>

Thus establishing a bi-directional rel-me link and confirming that the two URLs represent the same person.

Publishers can use the XFN creator form to create rel-me hyperlinks.

screencast and videos

Watch some short videos:

Longer:

  • Gavin Bell on "What is your provenance?" (40 minutes) - provides a much broader discussion of the problem statement of who is a person on the Web, and starting at about 0:07:30 explains how hCard + rel="me" helps solve this problem.

tutorials

A simple data portability project or is it rel=me summary by Bob Ngu

see also