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Four steps to get FOAF on your site

By aidan
Created 2007-02-08 17:50

FOAF [1] 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].

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 [3] 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 [4]


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