FOAF (2000-2015+)

Friend of a Friend (FOAF): an experimental linked information system.

FOAF is a computer language defining a dictionary of people-related terms that can be used in structured data (e.g. RDFa, JSON-LD, Linked Data).

Status: in stasis

• FOAF specification - a computer language for people and machines.
• The original writeup from 2000 explains what we thought we were doing.
• Linked Data vocabularies using FOAF.
• Linked Data datasets using FOAF.
• Wikipedia entry.
• FOAF for researchers, archivists.
• foaf-dev mailing list.
• TimBL Linked Data notes
• New stuff: see also schema.org
• Old: Guardian article, Galway Workshop, ETech talk (2004)
• Retro: Dagstuhl talk
• Nearby: 2002 fiction...

Contacts: Dan Brickley (@danbri), Libby Miller (@libbymiller)