The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project.
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.
FOAF is about your place in the Web, and the Web's place in our world. FOAF is a simple technology that makes it easier to share and use information about people and their activities (eg. photos, calendars, weblogs), to transfer information between Web sites, and to automatically extend, merge and re-use it online.
To get started with describing yourself with FOAF, see the 'you' section. Applications (tools, directories, maps, ...) built using FOAF, are available from the 'world' section. The 'Web' section covers the technical detail behind the FOAF Specification, providing documentation for Web developers interested in using FOAF or helping to improve it. Background on the FOAF community, on the values behind FOAF, and the FOAF developer community are in the 'us' section, while the 'them' explores the use of FOAF to describe unFOAFly activities in a connected world. The project weblog has project news and articles, while the Planet FOAF page collects together posts from the wider community.
"There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't."
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