Introduction to Digital Libraries Assignment #2 Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science CS 751/851 Spring 2011 Michael L. Nelson <mln@cs.odu.edu> 02/21/11

Build a FOAF Network Pick your favorite fictional universe, for example:

FOAF Network Build a detailed FOAF file describing at least 20 characters from the universe Use images Import non-FOAF elements; find appropriate & useful schemas, for example: http://www.perceive.net/schemas/20031015/relationship/ http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

Validation & Visualization Email to the class email list by 11:59PM March 22 URLs for: your .rdf file your .rdf file as run through the W3C RDF validator ex: http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ARPServlet?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fsw.deri.org%2F2004%2F08%2Ffoafgwy%2Fdemos.rdf&PARSE=Parse+URI%3A+&TRIPLES_AND_GRAPH=PRINT_TRIPLES&FORMAT=PNG_EMBED your .rdf file in FOAF.Vix & FOAF Explorer and any other FOAF visualizer / viewer you can find any other neat services you can discover URLs to screen shots if local services (like Welkin)