The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project | FOAF project. RDFWeb and FOAF: semantic web vapourware for the masses. FOAF-a-matic -- Describe yourself in RDF. Written by Leigh Dodds. Introduction FOAF-a-matic is a simple Javascript application that allows you to create a FOAF ("Friend-of-A-Friend") description of yourself. You can read more about FOAF in Edd Dumbill's "XML Watch: Finding friends with XML and RDF" article, at the FOAF homepage on RDFWeb, and also the FOAF vocabulary description. In short though, FOAF is a way to describe yourself -- your name, email address, and the people you're friends with -- using XML and RDF. This allows software to process these descriptions, perhaps as part of an automated search engine, to discover information about your and the communities of which you're a member.
FOAF has the potential to drive many new interesting developments in online communities. Ben Hammersely's "Click to the Clique" article for the Guardian Unlimited website further explores these ideas. The FOAF-a-Matic is being provided as a quick and easy way for you to create your own FOAF description. People You Know Generate Results License. FoafSites - ESW Wiki.