Should we consider FOAF

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

for deliverable D4.2, the JEM directory of e-authors, and try to produce a FOAF-compatible profile for those registered here at JEM? This would have some impact on the JEM community if we could get other drupal-sites like ActiveMath and Inter2Geo to install it too. In fact, from the documentation:

FOAF module enables the following:

 1. automatically import/synchronize profile information between any Drupal-powered sites
 2. import profile information from external FOAF files
 3. export a FOAF file based on a user's profile

For profile synchronization, when you login to site A using your account information from site B, your site A profile automatically gets filled with values from site B - presuming that both A and B have foaf.module and drupal.module enabled. Sounds perfect I think.

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