= How to convert the apple address book to RDF = These tools exist to do it: * [http://www.holygoat.co.uk/applications/address-book-foaf/address-book-to-foaf-converter Richard Newman's] python converter. there is an [http://www.holygoat.co.uk/applications/address-book-foaf/projects/ab/ab.py older version] * [http://people.no-distance.net/ol/software/ab-foaf/ AB-FOAF by Olivier Gutknecht] - a cocoa / python program. * [http://search.cpan.org/~kjetilk/XML-FOAFKnows-FromvCard/ XML-FOAFKnows-FromvCard] by KjetilK. Does only foaf:knows creation * [http://b4mad.net/datenbrei/archives/2005/12/20/putting-my-address-book-online/ ab-new.py] a new python script to get the address book. [http://b4mad.net/2005/12/18/ab-new.py.txt ab-new.py.txt] Sources: Libby Miller, [http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/778100/ This blog entry]. = Documentation by Apple = * [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/AddressBook-date.html Addressbook documentation+tutorial] * [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Reference/AddressBook-date.html Addressbook reference] An applescript file that does a starting thing {{{ tell application "Address Book" set out to "" repeat with p in people set out to out & "" set out to out & "" & (name of p) & "" repeat with e in emails of p set out to out & "mailto:" & value of e & "" end repeat set out to out & "" end repeat set out to out & "" out end tell }}} = The DataSource itself = It should copy/paste from the RDF-File datasource ---------------------- I uploaded a script I made a couple of years ago, but it's appeared as 0 bytes. So here's the script. To use it, you need to create a group called "FOAF" and add anyone you want in your knows list to that group. If you have a URL for their FOAF file, select their card in the Address Book, choose Card>Add Field>URL, change the URL title to FOAF and but the URL in the URL box. {{{ property foaf : "FOAF" tell application "Address Book" set m to properties of my card set the_file to (((path to desktop) as string) & first name of m & last name of m & ".rdf") as file specification set rdf to "" & return set rdf to rdf & "" & return set rdf to rdf & "" & first name of m & " " & last name of m & "" & return if nickname of m ≠ "" then set rdf to rdf & "" & nickname of m & "" & return end if if group foaf exists then repeat with this_person in every person of group foaf set rdf to rdf & "" & return set rdf to rdf & "" & first name of this_person & " " & last name of this_person & "" & return repeat with e in emails of this_person set rdf to rdf & "mailto:" & value of e & "" & return end repeat if ((count of urls of this_person) > 0) then if label of url 1 of this_person is "FOAF" then set rdf to rdf & "" & return end if end if set rdf to rdf & "" & return end repeat end if set rdf to rdf & "" end tell try open for access the_file with write permission set eof of the_file to 0 write (rdf) to the_file starting at eof close access the_file on error try close access the_file end try end try }}}