Raw

Taken a while for me to catch up with this (bloomin' cold), but the new application from Garlik was announced last week, QDOS. You give it a few URIs which contain information about you (e.g. on MySpace or Flickr) and it'll give you a rating according to your online persona's popularity, activity, impact and individuality, e.g. I have Q3452, behind Big Brother contestant Ziggy Lichman but ahead of celebrity arsehole Gary Bushell.

When I had a quick play (Friday?) I came away thinking, nice...but not something anyone but a hardcore SEO fanatic or narcissist A-lister is going to look at more than once. Today I got around to catching up with the lists, and found Steve Harris's announcement. Woo-hoo!

Take the profile URIs and add /turtle to the end (or tell your agent to use the header Accept: application/x-turtle), you get a nice bunch of RDF! It ties together any accounts you've told it about. Here's an example (trimmed, after converting it to RDF/XML):

<VerifiedAccount rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Bushell">

</VerifiedAccount>



<VerifiedAccount rdf:about="http://garryformayor.co.uk/">

</VerifiedAccount>



<Celebrity rdf:about="http://qdos.com/celeb/170cd2738b38b101979a3ef9549b5d49">

<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://qdos.com/schema#ComedianCelebrity"/>

<homepage rdf:resource="http://garryformayor.co.uk/"/>

<metaphone>KR</metaphone>

<metaphone>PXL</metaphone>

<qdos rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer">3447</qdos>

<wikipediaPage rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Bushell"/>

<seeAlso xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"

rdf:resource="http://qdos.com/celeb/170cd2738b38b101979a3ef9549b5d49-ext"/>

<sameAs xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"

rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Garry_Bushell"/>

<name xmlns="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">Garry Bushell</name>

</Celebrity>