Friend-of-a-Friend (A Social Graph)

• A Vocabulary for defining the (professional) interests of people
• Specification: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
  • foaf:Person, foaf:Interest, foaf:knows, foaf:Group,
  • foaf:currentProject, foaf:Publication, foaf:based_near, ical:Vevent
• Expressed as an Information triple using RDF syntax.
  • An RDF triple is a subject-predicate-object expression.
  • Where the object of one expression can be the subject of another
  • And a predicate is an assertion (property),
    agreed by a community: An ontology
  • And can operate on a scale of trillions of triples!
• Giant Global Graph, or GGG (Tim Berners-Lee, 2007) of Intertwingled content.
• See here for more information