FoaF

FOAF ( Friend off has friend , that one can translate by “the friend of a friend”) is a vocabulary RDF making it possible to describe people and the relations which they maintain between them. It is an application of the semantic Web, which is regarded as very promising.

Documentation

Gate of the project
FOAF Diagram 0.1: specification of vocabulary FOAF.
Finding friends with XML and RDF, by Edd Dumbill: a clear introduction and general practitioner with FOAF.
how to sign a file FOAF with PGP
how to quantify a file FOAF

FOAF Corp

FOAF Corp is an extension of FOAF to the field of the companies.
One will see the experimental application Foaf Corp viewer in SVG.
One will be able to also visualize in Flash the experimental application They rule.

Example


  
    Jimmy Wales
    
    
    Jimbo
    
    
      
    
    
      
        Angela Beesley

Applications for end users

the wiki of RDFWeb proposes a describing page of the tools related to FOAF.
FOAF-a-matic, by Leigh Dodds: a form treated in Javascript enables you to generate a file FOAF easily.
FOAFaMaticMark2, application in Java allowing to generate a file FOAF easily.
FOAF Board Bulletin, by Leigh Dodds: explain a technique to index on a page of a wiki the bonds towards files FOAF of people being registered freely on the aforementioned page.
FoaF To explore, navigator FOAF in HTML.
FOAF browser, a Appliquette Java which makes it possible to sail graphically in descriptions FOAF.
FoafNaut, another navigator FOAF with a user interface in SVG.
FOAFer, navigator FOAF in HTML.
Plink, search engine and navigator FOAF. But Plink ceased its since November 2004 activity.
MSN2FOAF, transforms the lists of contact MSN Messenger into file FOAF.
JabFoaf, utilities of transformation Jabber - > FOAF.
FOAF 2 vCard, transforms a file FOAF into a series of VCard.
Thunderbird-FOAF is an extension Thunderbird which makes it possible to visualize the FOAF contained in headings X-FOAF of the emails of your correspondents.

The corner of the developers

Parsing FOAF with PHP
Package Pear XML_FOAF, in version alpha.

Projects, experiments

foafnet.org is a consortium of business firms aiming at adopting a subset of FOAF in their applications. This consortium counts 13 companies and 6 additional companies think of this possibility (08/2004).
WikiFOAF
FOAF Style (version filed) , experiments of Laurent Denis for styler a file FOAF.
On an original idea of Christopher Schmidt, Ian Davis shows how to send your FOAF to the whole world in the headings of the emails with Thunderbird.

Futurology

an article speculative, without reference of sources, but not unrealistic, on the nearest use of FOAF by Google to become one of the first search engines semantics. This article gives an explanation on the recent repurchase (02/2003) of Blogger by Google: Google would use Blogger like one of the first tools able to produce indexable contents semantics by its Search engine.
an idea of application: to manage using FOAF its base of “name of account”/“word-of-passes” used on various Internet sites.

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