Chapter 4. Creating Linked Data with FOAF
This chapter covers
- A brief description of the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
- Creating a personal description of yourself using FOAF
- Using your FOAF profile and a gift wish list to discover relevant product information
- Updating and extending your FOAF profile
Now that you’ve had experience discovering published Linked Data, this chapter will guide you in creating and publishing your own data. A simple way to start is by creating a personal Linked Data profile. Such profiles are based on the Friend of a Friend vocabulary.
The FOAF project was started in 2000 to generate a web of machine-readable pages that describe people, thus supporting the Semantic Web goal of creating a machine-accessible Web of Data. The project is popular and has exceeded its expectations. FOAF facilitates a Semantic Web equivalent of a typical HTML homepage. This chapter will familiarize you with FOAF, illustrate how you can create your personal FOAF profile, and show you how to join the FOAF community by publishing your data publicly.