Semantic Web/FOAF

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FOAF stands for Friend of a Friend, and is part of the Semantic Web:

FOAF is a way to describe people and relationships to computers...Technically, it is an RDF/XML Semantic Web vocabulary. Because of this, FOAF data is easy to process and merge.

— rdfweb FAQ

XFN compared and contrasted with FOAF, by Eric Meyer

[edit] Tools

FOAF extension for Thunderbird, thanks to Christopher Schmidt
- direct link to extension

This plugin requires the X-FOAF header to be included in the mail.

FOAFNaut
- FOAFNaut code, at Christopher Schmidt

How to sign FOAFFiles

Indicating HTML or RDF page document authorship with FOAF

FOAF Developers' site
- Developers' mailing list: rdfweb-dev
  - rdf-dev archives
- alternate FOAF Developers' mailing list: foaf-dev
- IRC: Developers' Chat on #foaf
  - chatlogs
- FOAFBot:
  FOAFBot is an IRC bot that provides access to a knowledge base created by spidering FOAF files. It can sit on an IRC channel and provide basic informational help about the members of a community.
  - example FOAFBot: irc://irc.freenode.net/foaf, #foaf

To put your FOAF file's location in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule foaf.rdf http://mamamusings.net/foaf.rdf [R=permanent] The [R=permanent] part is only necessary if you've relocated your foaf.rdf file on your server.