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FOAF (ontology)

Known as: FOAF, Friend of a Friend (Software), Web ID 
FOAF (an acronym of Friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and… 
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2014
2014
Is lemon Sufficient for Building Multilingual Ontologies for Bantu Languages?
The current enormous amount of data on the Semantic Web and its increasing uptake raises the question of how this data can be… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
How is the Semantic Web evolving? A dynamic social network perspective
2011
2011
FOAF-Academic Ontology: A Vocabulary for the Academic Community
The aim of Semantic Web is to add machineprocessable information to the Web. Our focus is on information related to people. This… 
2010
2010
SWRL-based Access Policies for Linked Data
Social applications are one of the fastest growing areas in the Web. However, privacy issues ensue if all information of all… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Interweaving Public User Profiles on the Web
While browsing the Web, providing profile information in social networking services, or tagging pictures, users leave a plethora… 
2009
2009
A Query-Driven Characterization of Linked Data
Due to the Linked Data initiative, the once unpopulated Semantic Web is now rapidly being populated with millions of facts stored… 
2008
2008
Social Network and Data Portability using Semantic Web Technologies
. Social network and data portability has recently gained a lot of interest as one of the issues for social media sites on the… 
2007
2007
X-SOM Results for OAEI 2007
This paper summarizes the results of the X-SOM tool in the OAEI 2007 campaign. X-SOM is an extensible ontology mapper that… 
2006
2006
Learning Social Networks from Web Documents Using Support Vector Classifiers
Automatic generation of a social network requires extracting pair-wise relations of the individuals. In this research, learning… 
2005
2005
Getting music recommendations and filtering newsfeeds from FOAF descriptions
This document proposes to use the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) definition to recommend music depending on user’s musical tastes and… 
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