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FOAF-a-matic is a simple Javascript application that allows you to create a FOAF ("Friend-of-A-Friend") description of yourself. You can read more about FOAF in Edd Dumbill's "XML Watch: Finding friends with XML and RDF" article, at the FOAF homepage on RDFWeb, and also the FOAF vocabulary description.

This specification describes the FOAF language, defined as a dictionary of named properties and classes using W3C's RDF technology.FOAF is a project devoted to linking people and information using the Web. Regardless of whether information is in people's heads, in physical or digital documents, or in the form of factual data, it can be linked. FOAF integrates three kinds of network: social networks of human collaboration, friendship and association; representational networks that describe a simplified view of a cartoon universe in factual terms, and information networks that use Web-based linking to share independently published descriptions of this inter-connected world. FOAF does not compete with socially-oriented Web sites; rather it provides an approach in which different sites can tell different parts of the larger story, and by which users can retain some control over their information in a non-proprietary format.

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do; it is a contribution to the linked information system known as the Web. FOAF defines an open, decentralized technology for connecting social Web sites, and the people they describe. [more...]

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"The FOAF ("Friend of a Friend") project is a community driven effort to define an RDF vocabulary for expressing metadata about people, and their interests, relationships and activities. Founded by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller, FOAF is an open community-lead initiative which is tackling head-on the wider Semantic Web goal of creating a machine processable web of data. Achieving this goal quickly requires a networ"

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

A WebID is a way to uniquely identify a person or other entity, such as a company, an organization, a web site, or other resource. The term "WebID" was coined by Dan Brickley and Tim Berners-Lee in 2000. As of 2010, the term "WebID" is used for a class of solutions, not any one technology. W3C may attempt to standardize one particular identity technology, which may use the term "WebID" more definitively. One of the current approaches using the name "WebID" is the FOAF+SSL WebID, a certificate-based solution. However, the concept of a WebID does not always depend upon FOAF (Friend-of-a-Friend).

This document specifies a vocabulary for describing projects independently of the project domain (e.g. software product development, fundraising, painting the garage). The intended architecture is primarily goal-oriented, that a project will consist of goals which may be broken down into subgoals and may be satisfied by completing a set of associated tasks. The vocabulary is constructed using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). It may be used in conjunction with other RDF vocabularies such as FOAF or as an RSS 1.0 module.

Semantic Radar is a semantic metadata detector for Mozilla Firefox. Available at Mozilla Add-ons site. It is a browser extension which inspects web pages for links to Semantic Web metadata and informs about presence of it by showing an icon in browser's status bar. Currently it supports RDF autodiscovery (SIOC, FOAF, DOAP and any type) and RDFa metadata detection. New: Semantic Radar can now ping the Semantic Web Ping Service when metadata are detected. This allows for a community based discovery of the Semantic Web data.

"Friend of a friend (FOAF) is a phrase used to refer to someone that one does not know well, literally, a friend of a friend. In some social sciences, the phrase is used as a half-joking shorthand for the fact that much of the information on which people act comes from distant sources (as in "It happened to a friend of a friend of mine") and cannot be confirmed. It is probably best known from urban legend studies, where it was popularized by Jan Harold Brunvand. It was first published by Rodney Dale in his 1978 book The Tumour in the Whale, in which he discussed the "FOAFtale". The rise of social network services has led to increased use of this term."

A library that enable any ASP.NET website to produce and consume semantic markup such as FOAF, APML, SIOC, XFN and microformats.

Searching 277 schema descriptions including FOAF - Friend of a Friend , Dublin Core Elements and Dublin Core addresses audio bibliographic biology books broadcast calendars calls citations classification collections commerce conferences

This server provides a wrapper around the HTML page for a painting and exposes part of the information using FOAF and Dublin Core ontologies.

"Semantic Radar is a semantic metadata detector for Mozilla Firefox. It detects the presence of SIOC, FOAF and DOAP as well as generic RDF and RDFa data in a webpage, and displays icons in the browser's status bar when one of these data formats is found. By clicking on an icon the user can browse the RDF data in an online semantic browser. It looks for RDF auto-discovery links generated by data export plugins to discover semantic data."

Tagpedia is a semantic reference useful to create sense-based descriptions of resources over the Web. In this way it wants to provide support to a better organization and access to semantically described Web contents in order to improve the management and the search for useful information. The initial contents of Tagpedia has been extracted mining Wikipedia.

The SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) initiative aims to create and leverage a layer of semantic data in online communities.