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:
Q215627 Causal agent CreativeWork Organisation Location Geographical area Place Administrative district Q386724 Agent Settlement Contestant Whole Person Q215627 NaturalPerson Object Agent Place Person Winner Region Organism Agent Territory Organization Agent Work Q5 Populated place Artifact Living thing Spatial Thing YagoLegalActor Athlete Thing Organization Abstraction Person _Feature Physical entity Q5 Dbo:Location Person YagoGeoEntity Person YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity Q486972 Living people User Account
Top interests:
Love Tattoos Rock Science fiction Friends Chocolate Star wars My chemical romance Taking back sunday Coffee Sex Painting Art Laughing Lord of the rings Reading Manga Star trek Drawing Sleeping Movies Food Video games Supernatural Singing The beatles Writing Doctor who Fanfiction Rain Slash Swimming Dancing Computers Boys Čats Brand new Anime Stars Photography History Harry potter Cooking Музыка Music Books Shopping Fantasy Poetry 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.