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Friend of a Friend is a simple RDF dialect of XML for describing people, and the relationships between people. The goal of the project and specification is to build a forum for defining online communities, and networks of indviduals with similar interests.

As an example, my FOAF description can be transformed into XHTML from the RDF source using XSLT with the FoaF Explorer.

Updated: Monday, May 23rd, 2005 @ 7:42 PM EST [40]

Data Formats:Metadata:FOAF {0}(8)

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• 1.FOAF Vocabulary Specification

  The definitions presented here are written using a computer language (RDF/OWL) that makes it easy for software to process some basic facts about the terms in the FOAF vocabulary. [27]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
  Author:
  Dan Brickley
  [1]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 @ 6:35 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  FOAF Vocabulary Specification foafowlrdfspec
   

• 2.Parsing FOAF with PHP

  Starts very simple: list all the RDF triples from a FOAF source. After that match basic information about a person, then all the people in the source, their relationships, and finally the icing: list all RSS channels of a person's friends. [1232]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://semanticplanet.com/2003/05/parsingFOAFWithPHP
  Author:
  Ian Davis
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, May 23rd, 2005 @ 7:42 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Parsing FOAF with PHP foafparsingphprdfrss
   

• 3.FOAF: Web View

  A FOAF viewer, browser and database. See also the Redfoot application server and RDFLib Python RDF library. You can find me in the database if you look, hint: nick is Doug. [1121]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://eikeon.com/foaf/
  Author:
  Daniel Krech
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, May 9th, 2005 @ 10:50 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  FOAF: Web View foafpythonrdf
   

• 4.FOAF Autocreation

  Paste the URI to your FOAF file and another to your OPML blogroll, and this PHP script will crawl the sites listed in your roll looking for autodiscovery links. The result? A new FOAF file with all your friends listed in it. [1111]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://tecknik.net/autofoaf/
  Author:
  Marcus Campbell
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, May 7th, 2005 @ 10:16 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  FOAF Autocreation foafopmlphp
   

• 5.FOAF-a-Matic

  A simple Javascript application that allows you to create a FOAF ("Friend-of-A-Friend") description of yourself. [31]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic.html
  Author:
  Leigh Dodds
  [2]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 @ 7:00 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  FOAF-a-Matic foafjavascript
   

• 6.FOAF Developer Site

  RDFWeb is an experimental linked information system, exploring some interconnected applications of the Semantic Web, beginning with the deployment of FOAF. [30]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://rdfweb.org/
  Author:
  Community
  [22]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 @ 6:51 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  FOAF Developer Site foafsemantic web
   

• 7.The FOAF Project

  The Friend of a Friend project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do. [29]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://foaf-project.org/
  Author:
  Community
  [22]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 @ 6:48 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  The FOAF Project foaf
   

• 8.Finding Friends with XML and RDF

  FOAF allows the expression of personal information and relationships, and is a useful building block for creating information systems that support online communities. [28]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-foaf.html
  Author:
  Edd Dumbill
  [2]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 @ 6:44 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Finding Friends with XML and RDF foafrdf
   

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