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FOAF

Friend of a Friend

Ontology describing persons, their activities, and relations. Enables decentralized social network description.

social-networkpeopleidentity
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Use Cases

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01

Decentralized social network profiles

02

Linked data identity management

03

Academic researcher networking

04

People discovery across platforms

Details

Maintained By
Dan Brickley & Libby Miller
License
Open
Creative Commons Attribution 1.0CC-BY-1.0
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CC BY 1.0 is an early version lacking clarifying language added in later CC releases.

Derived from the FOAF Vocabulary Specification, licensed under CC BY 1.0. Source: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/

Verified against the licence text on 2026-08-07.

Category
Web Standards

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