Anchoring DOAP to the real world

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From an email prior to the creation of the public project:

We [Stuart and Ross] were talking about hand-crafted RDF singletons to
anchor DOAP/RDF to the real world.

Here is the fragment I hand crafted for Oxford University. The
approach I used it to tie as many different facets as possible:
organisational, geographical, news, images, wikis, postcodes,
repositories, etc

cheers
stuart

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
         xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
         xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
         xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
         xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
         xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
         xmlns:vCard = "http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#" >

  <foaf:Group rdf:ID="OxfordUniversity">
    <foaf:name xml:lang="en">University of Oxford</foaf:name>
    <foaf:homepage  dc:format="text/html" dc:lang="en"
rdf:resource="http://www.ox.ac.uk/"/>

    <!-- institutional RSS feed -->
    <foaf:seeAlso  rdf:resource="http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/news.xml"
dc:format="application/rss+xml" />
    <!-- institutional repositories -->
    <foaf:seeAlso
rdf:resource="http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/perl/oai2"
dc:format="text/xml" />
    <foaf:seeAlso
rdf:resource="http://eprints.maths.ox.ac.uk/perl/oai2"
dc:format="text/xml" />

    <!-- pictures of oxford from flickr -->
    <foaf:seeAlso
rdf:resource="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=oxford
university&amp;format=rss_200"
dc:format="application/rss+xml" />
   <foaf:seeAlso
rdf:resource="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=oxford
university&amp;format=rss_100"
dc:format="application/rdf+xml" />

    <foaf:page  dc:format="text/html" dc:lang="en"
rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford"/>
    <foaf:interest dc:format="text/html" dc:lang="en"
rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research"/>
    <foaf:interest dc:format="text/html" dc:lang="en"
rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia"/>
    <foaf:interest dc:format="text/html" dc:lang="en"
rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education"/>
    <foaf:interest dc:format="text/html" dc:lang="en"
rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford"/>
    <vCard:ADR rdf:parseType="Resource">
       <vCard:ExtAdd>University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford,
OX1 2JD</vCard:ExtAdd>
       <vCard:Pcode>OX1 2JD</vCard:Pcode>
    </vCard:ADR>
    <foaf:based_near rdf:parseType="Resource">
          <!-- this is the location of carfax tower in oxford -->
          <geo:lat>51.751944</geo:lat>
          <geo:long>-1.257778</geo:long>
    </foaf:based_near>
    <vCard:TEL rdf:parseType="Resource">
       <rdf:value>+44 (0)1865 270000</rdf:value>
       <rdf:type
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#work"/>
       <rdf:type
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#phone"/>
    </vCard:TEL>
    <foaf:phone>tel:+44 (0)1865 270000</foaf:phone>

   <!-- Third parties linking to this can "complete the loop" by
adding the URL of their RDF to the following URL, which is an
RDF-friendly wiki -->
   <rdfs:seeAlso  dc:format="application/rdf+xml"
rdf:resource="http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Special:ExportRDF?pages=University_of_Ox
ford"/>

  </foaf:Group>

  <!-- this line is here to indicate that Oxford is a legal
organisation as well as a group -->
  <foaf:Organization>
      <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="OxfordUniversity"/>
  </foaf:Organization>

  <!-- map to rdf:nodeIDs -->
  <foaf:Group rdf:nodeID="OxfordUniversity">
      <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="OxfordUniversity"/>
  </foaf:Group>

</rdf:RDF>

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ross.gardler on 20 Apr 2007 at 10:48

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Original comment by ross.gardler on 20 Apr 2007 at 12:24

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There are two approaches to this:

1) Write RDF for every institution. This gives us _great_ RDF, but limits our 
ability
to interact with other players who are largely using relational approaches.
2) Generate RDF from known sources. This generates sparse RDF, but enhances our
ability to play nicely.

See http://www.hesa.ac.uk/links/he_inst.htm for a place to scape the list of
institutions, their URLs and their all-important HESA ids.

Original comment by syea...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2007 at 12:36

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Moving to unscheduled - need to think carefully about where this fits in our 
objectives.

Original comment by ross.gardler on 13 Aug 2007 at 10:03

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