About
The Ident Engine is part of a year long personal project into combining social graph data with other open data sources. With over 1.3 billion hCard profiles on the web and RDF growing in strength, the semantic web has reached a tipping point. I built the Ident Engine to show that constructing user experiences by blending semantic web APIs and other open data sources is not only practical, but offers exciting opportunities.
Related projects
Identify is a Firefox add-on that combines identities across various social network/media sites. Its uses Ident Engine library .
This the original server-side version of code on which the Ident Engine library is based.
This experimental demo showes how OAuth can be used to add privacy to open data sources like microformats and feeds.
Presentations
I have given a number of talks about blending social graph data and other open data sources over the last year. The slide deck from Codebits in Lisbon (below) contains the most update version of my talks. The Twiist.be "Experiments in Data Portability" talk gives a larger overview.
- Re-using social media data - Sapo Codebits – Lisbon, Portugal - 4 Dec 2009
- Experiments in Data Portability 2 - Twiist.be – Leuven, Belgium - 15 May 2009
- How to connect social media with open standards - Social Web Foocamp - Sebastopol, CA - 18 April 2009
- How I built the demo's - Barcamp London 6 – London, UK - 28 March 2009
- Microformats: A Quiet Revolution - SXSW – Austin, TX - 14 March 2009
- Experiments in Data Portability - Skillswap – Brighton, UK - 25 November 2008
Articles
- Identify: Google People With Two Keystrokes - Read Write Web article on the Identify Firefox addon by Marshall Kirkpatrick
Resources
If you are interested in this area I have listed a number of different resources you may find useful.