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FOAF: Deployment, Overview & Example

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.

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FOAF topic overview

The analysis highlights Deployment, Overview and Example as prominent areas in the source structure around FOAF.

Related topics
37
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
41
Extracted relationships
46
Concept neighborhoods
16
Bridge connections
41

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 19 topics
Deployment · 15 topics
Example · 2 topics
WebID · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Abbreviation
FOAF
Authors
Dan Brickley, Libby Miller
Base standards
RDF, OWL
Domain
Semantic Web
First published
June 3, 2005; 21 years ago (2005-06-03)
Latest version
0.99 January 14, 2014; 12 years ago (2014-01-14)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

WebID

Deployment

Example

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How FOAF connects Entity context

The extracted context around FOAF shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, FOAF → Although, DeadJournal, Firefox, For, FriendFeed, Identi, Live Journal, MediaWiki, My Opera, Prominent, RSS, Safari, Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Radar, TypePad, WordPress, Yandex Another extracted example is FOAF → Angela Beesley, He, His, James Wales, Person, RDF, The, Turtle, Wikimedia. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

FOAF

Top relations

related to Deployment · 17
FOAF → Although, DeadJournal, Firefox, For, FriendFeed, Identi, Live Journal, MediaWiki, My Opera, Prominent, RSS, Safari, Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Radar, TypePad, WordPress, Yandex
related to Example · 9
FOAF → Angela Beesley, He, His, James Wales, Person, RDF, The, Turtle, Wikimedia
related to External links · 5
FOAF → Archived, FOAF-search, October, Official, Wayback Machine
related to WebID · 3
FOAF → SSL, TLS, WebID
Abbreviation · 1
FOAF → FOAF
Authors · 1
FOAF → Dan Brickley, Libby Miller
Base standards · 1
FOAF → RDF, OWL
Domain · 1
FOAF → Semantic Web
First published · 1
FOAF → June 3, 2005; 21 years ago (2005-06-03)
Latest version · 1
FOAF → 0.99 January 14, 2014; 12 years ago (2014-01-14)

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

web rdf people semantic profile relationships ontology friend social owl example support resource profiles name use describe networks vocabulary defining

FOAF relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 46 structured relationships around FOAF. Examples in this analysis include FOAF → Abbreviation → FOAF and FOAF → Authors → Dan Brickley, Libby Miller. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
FOAFAbbreviationFOAF1.00infobox
FOAFAuthorsDan Brickley, Libby Miller1.00infobox
FOAFBase standardsRDF, OWL1.00infobox
FOAFDomainSemantic Web1.00infobox
FOAFFirst publishedJune 3, 2005; 21 years ago (2005-06-03)1.00infobox
FOAFLatest version0.99 January 14, 2014; 12 years ago (2014-01-14)1.00infobox
FOAFLicenseCC BY 1.01.00infobox
FOAFSeriesNamespace Document1.00infobox
FOAFStatusPublished1.00infobox
FOAFWebsitexmlns.com/foaf/spec/1.00infobox
FOAFYear started2000; 26 years ago (2000)1.00infobox
FOAFis adescriptive vocabulary expressed using the Resource Description Framework0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around FOAF bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Support, Semantic and Web. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • FOAF
    • Support
    • Semantic
    • Web
    • Example
    • Friend
    • Ontology
    • Owl
    • Profiles
    • People
    • Profile
    • Rdf
    • Brickley
  • foaf
    • Support
    • Semantic
    • Web
    • Example
    • Friend
    • Ontology
    • Owl
    • Profiles
    • People
    • Profile
    • Rdf
    • Brickley
  • rdf
    • Web
    • Owl
    • Semantic
    • Citation
    • First
    • Ggg
    • Language
    • Using
    • Resource
    • Social
    • Brickley
    • Dan
  • example
    • Friend
    • Profiles
    • Brickley
    • Citation
    • Dan
    • First
    • Ggg
    • Groups
    • Libby
    • Miller
    • Started
    • Use
  • friend of a friend
    • Example
    • People
    • Brickley
    • Citation
    • Dan
    • First
    • Ggg
    • Libby
    • Miller
    • Started
    • Use
    • Ontology
  • web ontology language
    • Description
    • Framework
    • Language
    • Ontology
    • Owl
    • Resource
    • Rdf
    • Project
    • Using
    • Vocabulary
    • Web
    • Social
  • ontology
    • Description
    • Framework
    • Language
    • Owl
    • Resource
    • Rdf
    • Web
    • Project
    • Using
    • Vocabulary
    • Social
    • People
  • social networks
    • Social
    • Citation
    • First
    • Ggg
    • Web
    • Relationships
    • People
    • Rdf
    • Semantic

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For FOAF, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects FOAF with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
FOAF — Overview · splits 22 ⟂ 20
FOAF — Deployment · splits 26 ⟂ 16
FOAF — Example · splits 39 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

FOAF

Nodes42
Edges41
Triples46
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around FOAF to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Deployment, Overview & Example, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — FOAF · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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