The motivation for the MeNow schema is to be able to describe a variety of aspects of the current status of someone, either online or off, in a way that the data can be easily aggregated or retrieved. This schema allows the definition of a variety of terms that would be common in many applications: describing the current book you are reading, music you are listening to, mood you are in, and more.

The use of the schema is designed to be easy to use for one-time status, or to describe a series of Statuses in a single document. Each document can contain an associated dc:date in order to describe the time when it was current, so that multiple sets of MeNow data can be included in the same document. Some examples of usage of menow data:

<foaf:Person>
    <menow:hasStatus><menow:Status>
        <dc:date>...</dc:date>
        <menow:located><geo:Point>
            <geo:lat />
            <geo:long />
        </geo:Point></menow:located>
        <menow:reading>
            A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
        </menow:reading>
         <menow:workingOn><foaf:Project>
            <dc:title>MeNow</dc:title>
        </foaf:Project></menow:workingOn>
    </menow:Status></menow:hasStatus>
</foaf:Person>

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<menow:Status rdf:ID="crschmidt_status_1091583839">
    <menow:isWith>
        <foaf:Person>
            <foaf:nick>Jessica</foaf:nick>
        </foaf:Person>
    </menow:isWith>
</menow:Status>

<foaf:Person>
    <menow:hasStatus rdf:resource="#crschmidt_status_1091583839" />
</foaf:Person>

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<menow:Status>
    <foaf:primaryTopic><foaf:Person>
        <foaf:nick>crschmidt</foaf:nick>
    </foaf:Person></foaf:primaryTopic>
</menow:Status>

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<menow:Status>
    <!-- This actually happened. -->
    <foaf:primaryTopic><foaf:Person>
        <foaf:mbox_sha1sum>bbff51a6d70630daafe242c186a6e27fda3e99c7</foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
    </foaf:Person></foaf:primaryTopic>
    <dc:date>2004-08-04T02:21:35Z</dc:date>
    <menow:writing><foaf:Document>
        <dc:title>menow.examples.txt</dc:title>
    </foaf:Document></menow:writing>
    <menow:isWith><foaf:Person>
        <foaf:name>Jessica Allan</foaf:name>
    </foaf:Person></menow:isWith>
    <menow:listeningTo>Air Conditioner....</menow:listeningTo>
    <menow:browsing rdf:resource="http://crschmidt.net/" />
    <menow:webcamDepiction rdf:resource="http://crschmidt.net/camera.jpg" />
</menow:Status>

MeNow: A vocabulary for defining often changing variables in FOAF 2005-01-18T01:27Z This document describes a vocabulary defining the "current status" of a foaf:Agent. http://schema.menow.org/ Joel De Gan Joel De Gan Christopher Schmidt Michael Zeltner Kevin Reid B.K. Delong Copyright 2004 Joel De Gan, Some Rights Reserved text/html HTML application/rdf+xml RDF Joel De Gan 7e7be2934eaf8e2b51210ab2642f6f77fb18ed6b Christopher Schmidt bbff51a6d70630daafe242c186a6e27fda3e99c7 B.K. DeLong 8245a9033a84bff4904f931c3c3bea7336a8935 Kevin Reid 38e5d56e3ea275dcb1692b0912aa752f72b35483 a679c0ccb519491b5d207c31b4af8115c2711a47 6c72954328f6b8127c8833fe719caa249ac71f2d Michael Zeltner c82bc464697d812369ae9a35b4a9742fffbb38d9 8b3a481a55f590367e1ce00128c5d30142cea83c status An RDF document describing a situation of a foaf:Agent at a particular time.

An RDF document describing a situation of a foaf:Agent at a particular time.

The person should be specified using the property http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/primaryTopic.

The associated time should be specified using the property http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date.

An textual status description, such as IM services offer, should be specified using the property http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description.

has Status A way to link an Agent and a menow:Status isWith A person is with. mood string A descriptor of someone's mood. located A descriptor of someone's location. accessing A resource you are accessing. A superproperty over reading/browsing, useful in cases where those terms don't fit exactly. Any resource which one is viewing/reading/browsing/playing with/(editing?). listeningTo Current song being listened to reading A book or resource you are reading. browsing A web page you are browsing. writing Something you're writing. working on A project you are working on. snapshot A superclass for images that were created on the date of this Status: mobile images, camera images, etc. An image which depicts the person. Not necessarily direct photo/video. A superclass for images or video streams that, as of the date of this Status, depict the person, but may not in the future. webcam A regularly updated photographic image or video stream which depicted the person at the date of this Status. current icon An icon chosen by the user to represent themselves, as in AIM buddy icons, LiveJournal user pictures, etc. The URL must refer to the icon as of the date of this Status, not a changing one. status icon A visual depiction of current status.