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. The Agent class is useful in a few places in FOAF where Person would have been overly specific.
For example, the IM chat ID properties such as jabberID are typically associated with people, but sometimes belong to software bots. [#] [back to top] Class: foaf:Document Document - A document. The Document class represents those things which are, broadly conceived, 'documents'. The Image class is a sub-class of Document, since all images are documents. We do not (currently) distinguish precisely between physical and electronic documents, or between copies of a work and the abstraction those copies embody. [#] [back to top] Class: foaf:Group Group - A class of Agents. Here is an example. <! [#] [back to top] Class: foaf:Image Image - An image. Introducing FOAF | FOAF project. 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. It introduces the FOAF system, providing an overview of the technology, ambitions and architecture behind the project.
The document assumes a somewhat technically-minded (or at least curious) audience. Contents What is FOAF? The basic idea behind FOAF is simple: the Web is all about making connections between things. Thousands of people already do this on the Web by describing themselves and their lives on their home page. An example FOAF is best explained with an example. Here's an example, a fragment from the mostly-fictional FOAF database. Dan lives in Zetland road, Bristol, UK with Libby and Craig.
This kind of information is the sort of thing typically found on Web home pages. Goals RDF seems to offer a lot of promise in this area. Saying things in RDF FOAF for Users FOAF for Developers.