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