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Four steps to get FOAF on your site

Posted February 8, 2007

FOAF stands for friend-of-a-friend. It’s a semantic-web format for describing people and the relationships between them.

Putting FOAF on your site is easy:

1.Generate a FOAF description. You can quickly generate a basic FOAF file by using the FOAF generator at FOAF-a-matic.

2.Put the FOAF description on your web server. Save it in your root web directory in a file called foaf.rdf

3.Add an auto-discover link to your website template. Put the following in the <head> of you template.

<link rel="meta" type="application/rdf+xml" title="FOAF" href="/foaf.rdf" />

4.Install the Semantic Radar plugin for firefox. This will tell you when you are at another site that has FOAF data and let you view it.

My FOAF profile is available at http://www.aidanf.net/foaf.rdf

Thanks for the info- installed it to see if I can get OpenID comment on my blog to look nicer.
Do you happen to know which (other) services actually use the data in the FOAF?

Submitted by Xslf on Wed, 2007-03-21 22:09.
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