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@deltina-

You are correct. Please read my article I linked to in my first post in this thread.

@jackreichert-

There are a few of us “Semantic Web / Linked Data” folk who are kicking around ideas to semantify BuddyPress. As far as turning WP into a distributed platform, that is too far beyond scope and would require a major rewriting of the foundational code.