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FOAF  

Definition

  • FOAF (an acronym of friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to describe themselves. FOAF allows groups of people to describe social networks without the need for a centralised database. FOAF is a descriptive vocabulary expressed using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).

Entry terms

  • Friend of a friend

Notation

  • FOAF

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https://vocabs.sshopencloud.eu/vocabularies/standard/foaf

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