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Excerpt: As part of our work on FriendSpace, we've been thinking about the relationships between agents, the things they create and their interests. What's particularly interesting to me is whether or not particular "topics" can be discovered from the information each person includes in their FOAF and other documents. FOAF has an interest property which can be used to express an interest like this: <foaf:interest rdf:resource="http://example.com/document"/> In the FOAF schema, the range of interest is a foaf:Document, which means that the application can conclude that http://example.com/document is a document. You could additionally specify a topic for the document like this: <foaf:interest> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.com/document"> <foaf:topic rdf:resource="http://example.com/topic"/> </rdf:Description> <foaf:interest> FOAF specifies the range of foaf:topic to be a Resource, i.e. it could be …