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