FOAF
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FOAF (an acronym of friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to describe themselves. FOAF allows groups of people to describe social networks without the need for a centralised database.
Key facts
- Technology standard.image
- FoafLogo.svg
- Technology standard.image_size
- 120px
- Technology standard.caption
- FOAF logo
- Technology standard.status
- Published
- Technology standard.title
- FOAF
- Technology standard.series
- Namespace Document
- Technology standard.abbreviation
- FOAF
- Technology standard.authors
- Dan Brickley, Libby Miller
- Technology standard.domain
- Semantic Web
- Technology standard.base_standards
- RDF, OWL
- Technology standard.version
- 0.99
- Technology standard.license
- CC BY 1.0
- Technology standard.long_name
- Friend of a friend
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- xmlns.com/foaf/0.1
- Image
- Foaf.svg
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- inception
- 2000-01-01
- Commons category
- FOAF
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/foaf
- XML namespace URL
- xmlns.com/foaf/0.1
- file extension
- rdf
- file format identification pattern
- 3C
- described at URL
- xmlns.com/foaf/0.1
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- Example
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FOAF (an acronym of friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to describe themselves. FOAF allows groups of people to describe social networks without the need for a centralised database.
FOAF is a descriptive vocabulary expressed using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Computers may use these FOAF profiles to find, for example, all people living in Europe, or to list all people both you and a friend of yours know. This is accomplished by defining relationships between people. Each profile has a unique identifier (such as the person's e-mail addresses, international telephone number, Facebook account name, a Jabber ID, or a URI of the homepage or weblog of the person), which is used when defining these relationships.