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