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	The Challenges of FOAF Characterization
		The first of these, urlsnew, is a list of all of the URLs of FOAF files obtained by the scutter, with information about the processing status of the file, the local cache name of the file, and a reference number used to identify the files that are the sources of individual triples.
		If FOAF data is intended to enable users to undertake the kinds of analysis we would like to do, then it is necessary for the FOAF community to go beyond the specification of markup standards.
		This is certainly not the case, since a single FOAF file exposes a coherent set of social relations, namely those related to an individual, rather than a random or meaningless set.
	stderr.org /~elw/foaf (5508 words)

	SWAD-Europe: FOAF Workshop @ DERI Galway (1-2 Sept 2004)
		The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development.
		FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology.
		The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off.
	www.w3.org /2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway (1107 words)

	FOAF fields - LID Wiki
		With FOAF, instead, we know NetMesh is the organization of Joaquin Miller, because we find an organization link to an organization object with 'NetMesh' in the name property from the person object with 'Joaquin Miller' in the name property.
		FOAF groups the reporter's contact data as properties of the foaf:Person object representing Clark.
		But, because of the architecture of FOAF, this problem (if it is a problem) is tractable: one need only choose an RDF namespace that has a useful (or, anyway, usable) concept of place.
	lid.netmesh.org /wiki/FOAF_fields (1143 words)

	Semantic Planet :: Parsing FOAF with PHP
		FOAF stands for Friend-of-a-Friend and is a fun application of RDF that describes people and their relationships to one another.
		FOAF allows you to describe all kinds of things about people, probably the most important of which is their name.
		FOAF is deliberately silent about the precise meaning of this link apart from saying that one person knows another.
	www.semanticplanet.com /2003/05/parsingFOAFWithPHP.html (3447 words)

	FOAF-Realm - control your friends' access to resources
		FOAF idea of describing distributed directed graph of friendship relations, where everyone specifies his friends only and no one else should modify this information meets some issues that should be solved.
		Because FOAF is an application of RDF it has all its benefits and drawback as well.
		The information stored in FOAF model can be transparently used in such a realm, providing not yet-another-way to store authentication information, but just realy new approach to authenticate people and define their priviledges.
	www.w3.org /2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/papers/fp/foaf_realm (2432 words)

	XML.com: An Introduction to FOAF
		The FOAF ("Friend of a Friend") project is a community driven effort to define an RDF vocabulary for expressing metadata about people, and their interests, relationships and activities.
		For example, while all of the FOAF classes are tied to a definition in Wordnet, via an RDF view of that data, the Person class is additionally tied to other schemas describing contact and geographic related data.
		The FOAF application most immediately useful to the owner of a freshly published FOAF description is Morten Frederikson's FOAF Explorer which can generate a HTML view of FOAF data, complete with referenced images and links to other data.
	www.xml.com /pub/a/2004/02/04/foaf.html (2205 words)

	Get Tooled Up:'FOAF : Using open standards to support community building', Ariadne Issue 39
		FOAF was designed to enable such information to be provided in a form which could not only be displayed as conventional Web page content but also to be used for automated processing.
		The FOAF specification provides a mechanism to define different categories of friends, such as close friend, relative, business colleague, etc. However it is still possible to make use of FOAF applications while still using a loose definition of the term friend.
		Despite FOAF having unresolved issues, this should not necessarily act as a barrier to use of FOAF - after all the limitations of the Web did not stop it being deployed in many organisations over 10 years ago, despite that fact that many of its limitations have still to be resolved.
	www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue39/web-focus (1860 words)

	XML Watch: Finding friends with XML and RDF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		FOAF allows the expression of personal information and relationships, and is a useful building block for creating information systems that support online communities.
		The FOAF vocabulary, originated by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller, gives a basic expression for community membership: describing people and their basic properties such as name, e-mail address, and so on.
		As I concluded in Expressing identity, the way FOAF identifies other people is by stating their properties: From this, a processor can use an identifying property to compute which person is being referenced.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/xml/library/x-foaf.html (2464 words)

	Denounce Newswire: FOAF Project Fizzles; Splinters Into 10 Competing Efforts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		FOAF organizers expect the project to shut down or at least go on hold for the forseeable future.
		The FOAF project was launched only a few months ago as a technology enabling computer enthusiasts to publicly share their personal network of friends and acquaintances.
		Envisioned as a way for people to publish personal information and relationships in a machine-readable standard format, the protocol showed promise initially but then lost ground when the elite A-list members of the blogging community could not agree on exactly what should be in the protocol and what should not.
	www.denounce.com /foaf.html (264 words)

	XML Watch: Support online communities with FOAF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		FOAF is an XML/RDF vocabulary for describing, in computer-readable form, the sort of personal information that you might normally put on a home Web page.
		In my earlier FOAF article, I touched on the possibilities that exist when FOAF descriptions are aggregated, and showed the value that can be obtained by gathering a community's knowledge in one place.
		As all the FOAF files in the examples are retrieved through the Web, it makes sense to annotate all the statements made in a file with that file's source URL.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/xml/library/x-foaf2.html (2381 words)

	Bill Kearney: Foaf grouping
		Those statements might be contradicted by the users own foaf file and, well, there's no need for us to make any additional statements about them in the context of them belonging to the group.
		That the group knows their name, foaf URL and has a hash of their e-mail should be more than enough.
		I think it's going to be important for general acceptance that Foaf begin paying heed to some of these important group-forming issues.
	www.ideaspace.net /users/wkearney/archives/entries/000409.html?f=1 (1070 words)

	Basic Specs / FOAFnet
		This foaf file can then be joined with data from other sources while still being able to identify the single person.
		Not every FOAF source has the data that this "requires", so requiring anything more than what people have is not going to be successful.
		With FOAF, if one person is definining their friends, there is no explicit permission from their friends to message them.
	www.socialtext.net /foafnet/index.cgi?basic_specs (1579 words)

	Friendster and FOAF (Phil Gyford: Writing)
		The audience of people who could understand FOAF in its current state, and have the time and energy to work it out, is orders of magnitude smaller than Friendster's potential market.
		FOAF somehow needs to reach this level of usability at which point we can hope its other benefits will become a winning advantage.
		Ecademy http://www.ecademy.com is a social network that exports FOAF in exactly the style that you are suggesting for Friendster.
	www.gyford.com /phil/writing/2002/12/23/friendster_and_f.php (888 words)

	Life With Alacrity: Hand-Crafting My FOAF
		FOAF is a standard for "Friend of a Friend" files, and is an attempt to make machine readable information about people, groups, companies, and other online resources.
		If you are using the blog service TypePad or the social networking service Ecademy you may already have a FOAF file without knowing it, and Tribe.Net announced at eTech that they were promising to support it as well for their social networking service.
		FOAF as a standard is still in a fairly primitive state -- to me it feels like HTML did during the days of the early Mosaic browser, when every good web page had to be hand-crafted in a text editor and uploaded to a server.
	www.lifewithalacrity.com /2004/02/handcrafting_my.html (2077 words)

	FOAF
		FOAF stands for Friend-of-a-Friend - a project geared towards using RDF information storage to generate more coincidences in the world around us.
		As buzzword filled as that statement is, it's true: FOAF looks to attempt to draw people closer together by allowing them to find out information about each other.
		FOAF is an RDF schema which allows people to describe themselves and people they know in a variety of ways.
	crschmidt.net /foaf (406 words)

	LiveJournal FOAF
		This was a lot of discussion in the foaf community, and it was decided that this was the closest thing that there was to a foaf-specific tag.
		Not sure how many people are interested to see applications of the lj foaf data, but here's a project of mine in case anyone's interested: a LiveJournal social network browser.
		FOAF is a way to describe yourself, and your relationships with other people.
	community.livejournal.com /ljfoaf (2281 words)

	Feet up! : Foaf
		Enter Perry Lorier's FOAF Lint tool, this currently has 13 tests to help encourage best practises in FOAF documents, and I'm sure that Perry will be adding more tests as best practises evolve and he gets more feedback.
		FOAF how-to's seem to be appearing in a few places, maybe it's indicative of the increasing spread of FOAF.
		The infamous Foaf Explorer and the RDF Photo codepiction tools were useful for surfing the ever increasing Foaf World, apparantly I'm less than 15 links removed from JFK somehow.
	feetup.org /blog/Foaf (1752 words)

	The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
		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.
		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.
	www.foaf-project.org (211 words)

	FOAF-a-matic -- Describe yourself in RDF
		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.
		It's worth adding a few friends to your description (but feel free to add as many as you like) because then when FOAF harvesters index your FOAF description, they'll be able to tie you all together as a network of individuals.
		Aaron Swartz has suggested using the HTML Link tag to point to FOAF descriptions, in a similar way that many bloggers are pointing to their RSS feeds.
	www.ldodds.com /foaf/foaf-a-matic.html (683 words)

	foafPub dataset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) vocabulary has become one of the most used semantic web ontologies and can be found in millions of RDF documents on the web.
		FOAF is used to describe basic attributes of people and relationships among them.
		The foaf files were selected from larger datasets described in [1] and [2] to represents a interesting and balanced selection of foaf documents.
	ebiquity.umbc.edu /resource/html/id/82 (360 words)

	FoaF Explorer
		FoaF is an acronym for Friend of a Friend, an experimental project and vocabulary for the Semantic Web.
		The FoaF Explorer is a contribution to the FoaF Project and part of the Semantic Web effort to make RDF available on the Web.
		Because of this, the FoaF Explorer may not show the intended meaning of certain FoaF files, and should not be considered a validator, use the W3C RDF Validator (for basic syntax) or Rosco (for schema validation) instead.
	xml.mfd-consult.dk /foaf/explorer (440 words)

	RDFWeb and Friend of a Friend (FOAF) developer site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		FOAF-related news, articles and discussion can be found here at rdfweb.org, as well as on the FOAF mailing list (rdfweb-dev), and in our IRC and Wiki forums.
		The www.foaf-project.org site is intended for FOAF users, while rdfweb.org is for people more involved in the project and the technology.
		If you have questions about FOAF that aren't answered in the FAQ, feel free to ask in irc or on rdfweb-dev.
	rdfweb.org (146 words)

	ETech: FOAF
		FOAF stands for Friend Of A Friend and is a distributed approach to social software.
		FOAF is essentially a machine readable version of a person's home page.
		FOAF's distributed nature gives you the power to put the data back in your control, and on a server/website that is controlled by you.
	www.openp2p.com /pub/wlg/4428 (1031 words)

	Foaf Project
		If your friend's FOAF file is digitally signed then it will help FOAF processors know the owner of your friend's file.
		There may be some information you want to represent in a FOAF file, but restrict it to certain people or groups of people.
		Firstly, ensure you have a PGP key and it is exported to the public keyservers, as described in PGP Signing FOAF Files.
	www.apocalypse.org /~nicole/FOAF/foaf-website2/index-now.html (759 words)

	Using FOAF and OWL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In the case extending of FOAF, using OWL as the extension language makes sense, since FOAF is already using some of the expressive power of OWL.
		Since FOAF isn't particularly extending the language (foaf:membershipClass excluded), dropping the imports of owl and rdfs is a painless change.
		I've run the foaf spec through foaf_cleaner with '--level=dl --clean', cleaned up the output with a devel copy of swoop, plus a couple of minor hand edits to produce http://www.mindswap.org/2003/owl/foaf which is used by a number of mindswap ontologies.
	www.mindswap.org /2005/foaf_cleaner (1165 words)

	May the FOAF be with you
		FOAF stands for "friend of a friend" and it is a method of publishing personal information about yourself in a machine-readable format.
		But I'm also concerned about the future potential of FOAF being hit on by marketeers and spammers, in the way that email is now.
		Triangulation over other foaf files to get email addresses is something that should not be possible, people who don't own the data should not be using an sha1'd email address without the owners consent.
	www.readwriteweb.com /archives/may_the_foaf_be.php (593 words)

	Getting started with foaf
		FOAF provides some basic machinery to help us tell the Web about the connections between the things that matter to us.
		FOAF uses W3C's RDF technology to integrate information from your home page with that of your friends, and the friends of your friends, and their friends...
		You can read more about foaf or just jump right in and make your first foaf file with the foaf-a-matic.
	www.foaf-project.org /2004/you/index.html (199 words)

	foaf
		FOAF is semantic Web vapourware - I'm not sure I ever really wrote down what the purpose was...
		FOAF's in very similar territory, with a few interesting twists.
		Edd's articles are a good intro, as is his foafbot application (currently offline while being updated to use more recent versions of the Redland RDF toolkit, unfortunately).
	www.xent.com /pipermail/fork/2003-February/017708.html (670 words)

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