I think a long term goal would be to support some RDF output to help identify connections between people. There is FOAF (http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/) and various other ontologies that describe a person and their relationships. At this point, I wouldn't know what is the best flavor for this, but you can see parts of it in practice in Wordpress with their FOAF support, on LinkedIn with a hCard microformat (http://www.linkedin.com/profile?key=14228901), or freebase which outputs an RDF document (Chuck Norris: http://rdf.freebase.com/rdf/en.chuck_norris).
The benefits of linked data in an accessible format are numerous, but its basically to allow Anahita to be useful for other programs to integrate with. I know Nooku can easily output to JSON, but that doesn't necessarily provide the same linked data.
Is this something that is of interest to the program's development in the future?
Regards, Jeremy #suggestions
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In fact socialnetwork can be prettymuch resumed in "adding semantic(meaning) to o links (edges)
In anahita if this semantic trough rfd will be implemented at the edge level, using the adge name to define the connection then this Jeremy can be extended not only to identify the connection between people (lead - follow -mutual) but any node connected to anyother node trough edges like for example attennding an event, or author of a blog, or member of a group, ...
so my +1 for RDF ;-)
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