Andy Dingley pravi:
>> I am trying to get in touch with anyone who used to work on this or is
>> perhaps still working on it. All the records I find online are rather
>> old and there are no people to contact anywhere.
> 
> All the people are still there, and generally still in Bristol, if not
> at ILRT (try buying beer in the Highbury Vaults!)

Which country already?

>> Anyhow, I am wondering why FOAF never became more popular
> 
> It did, but like most SemWeb stuff it's hidden "under the hood".

...and unused.

>> First of all, a single FOAF file is intended to describe a single
>> person, right?
> 
> FOAF is RDF, so frees itself from XML concepts like "file". It's a
> small problem to manipulate multiple entities in one document and a big
> problem to manage one entity described across many documents. RDF tools
> solve nearly all of this for you, and transparently. This is why it's
> important to use something like Jena rather than document-based XML
> tools.

You're asking me to use a Java library? Hmm, right, I think I understand 
why all my friends hate XML now...

Not to mention, it really doesn't answer my question. I don't use "XML 
tools", document or otherwise, unless you count VI as one. I simply 
recognize the possibility of there being more than one source of 
information for describing a certain someone. The obvious solution is to 
use a FAT (or should I say XAT? *g*), but how exactly does one use RDF 
to form this kind of structure?

> The rest is just an exercise in web searching. Try identifying the
> obvious author names, then tracking down their current projects.

You could have just summed up your entire post into "RTFM" then.

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