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:
Organisation Agent Causal agent Administrative district Thing Geographical area Living people Person Populated place Person Q386724 YagoGeoEntity Dbo:Location Artifact Q486972 Agent Location Physical entity YagoLegalActor Abstraction Agent Settlement Organization Work CreativeWork Contestant Organization User Account NaturalPerson Region Territory Q5 Q215627 Object _Feature Athlete Person Place Organism Living thing Q5 Person Winner Spatial Thing Agent Place Q215627 Person YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity Whole
Top interests:
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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.