WebGUI And The Semantic Web. FOAF Vocabulary Specification. Classes Class: foaf:Agent Agent - An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact).
The Agent class is the class of agents; things that do stuff. A well known sub-class is Person, representing people. Other kinds of agents include Organization and Group. Introducing FOAF. Introducing FOAF This is the original introduction to the FOAF linked information system, written for the RDFWeb project early in 2000.
A lot has changed since then, but this text is kept largely intact.