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