FOAF (software)

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FOAF (Friend of a Friend) is a project for machine-readable modelling of homepage-like content and social networks founded by Libby Miller and Dan Brickley. The heart of the project is its specification which defines some terms that can be used in statements you can make about someone, such as name, gender and various online attributes. To make linking possible, one includes uniquely identifiable properties of one's friends (such as SHA1 checksums of their E-Mail addresses, a Jabber ID, or a URI to the homepage or weblog of the person).

It is based on RDF, defined using OWL and was designed to be easily extended, to allow data to be shared between varied computing environments.

Example

xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#">

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Angela Beesley 

Live forums

• [Chat] with experts on FOAF

See also

• Semantic Web
• Social network
• Description of a Career (DOAC)
• XML
• XHTML Friends Network
• hCard

External links

• [The FOAF Project]
• [FOAF Specification]
• [RDFweb] hosts the [FOAF wiki]
• [FOAFexplorer] HTML based FOAF Browser
• [FOAF+DOAC Project Homepage]
• [Advanced FOAF Explorer] another XHTML based FOAF Browser
• [FOAFnaut] SVG based FOAF Browser
• [FoaFSpace] FOAF search engine
• [FOAFiler] FOAF search engine
• [FOAF-a-matic] Page to generate FOAF Descriptions
• [FOAFgen] Convert LDIF/vCard collections to FOAF
• [XHTML Friends Network] is a similar system for tracking social relationship among webloggers.
• [FOAF dataset] a dataset of 2M foaf triples

 

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