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