Friend of a friend (FOAF) search engine
Welcome to foaf-search.net!You can use the input field above to search through millions of interconnected persons, organisations and places in the semantic web. Enter the name, e-mail, nick, homepage, openid, mbox-hash or URI of the person, organisation or place you are searching.
Top types:
Artifact Organisation Organization Agent Q5 Region Spatial Thing Geographical area Settlement User Account Dbo:Location Q5 Abstraction Person Administrative district Agent Person Winner Person Place YagoLegalActor Agent _Feature Territory Q215627 YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity Organism Living thing Organization Q486972 Person Q386724 Q215627 Living people Place Agent Whole CreativeWork Physical entity Athlete Contestant Object Thing YagoGeoEntity NaturalPerson Causal agent Work Person Location Populated place
Top interests:
Stars Love Video games Movies Coffee Slash My chemical romance Fantasy Tattoos Science fiction Dancing Rock Singing Fanfiction Icons Painting Computers Star wars Poetry Star trek Laughing Lord of the rings The beatles Friends Doctor who Food Swimming Chocolate History Anime Taking back sunday Harry potter Writing Reading Sex Shopping Supernatural Музыка Boys Manga Music Cooking Photography Drawing Rain Čats Sleeping Art Books Firefly
New: Relaunch
We do not use a triple store any more - all important data is kept in a RDB. Documents related to a person are crawled on demand and cached up to 24h. The system can now display data on any dereferenceable URI.
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About
Friend of a friend (FOAF) is a decentralized social network using semantic web technology to describe persons and their relations in a machine readable way. The Friend of a friend vocabulary can also be used to describe groups, organisations and other things.
Everybody can create a Friend of a friend profile describing himself and whom he knows. This profile can be published anywhere on the web. Many social networking websites publish the openly accessible information of their members with Friend of a friend. DBpedia uses it to publish data about persons in Wikipedia.
If you want to create a profile right away, you can use FOAF-a-Matic
More information can be found on the FOAF project website, on Wikipedia or in the specification.