Everything about FOAF

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: FOAFA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Explorer's guide to the Semantic WebThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: FOAF: Connecting People on the Semantic WebCited 69 times
4. Go sideways: RDFaA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Resource Description FrameworkA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• FOAF: Connecting People on the Semantic Web

  Mike Graves, Adam Constabaris, Dan Brickley · 2007 · Cataloging & Classification Quarterly · 69 citations

• Dynamic FOAF management method for social networks in the social web environment

  Jong-Soo Sohn, In-Jeong Chung · 2013 · The Journal of Supercomputing · 11 citations

• Friend of a Friend with Benefits ontology (FOAF+): extending a social network ontology for public health

  Muhammad Amith, Kayo Fujimoto, Rebecca Mauldin · 2020 · BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making · 10 citations

• 5-(Perfluorooctylthio)acetamidofluorescein (5-FOAF) as a convenient tag for inspecting the surface coverage of fluorinated coatings

  Yu-Ting Li, Huang-Han Chen, Boppudi Hari Babu · 2010 · Applied Surface Science · 7 citations

• Belief Reasoning Recommendation --Mashing up Web Information Fusion and FOAF

  Shijun Li, Yunlu Zhang, Ming Xie · 2010 · Journal of Computers · 5 citations

• Implementation of FOAF, AIISO and DOAP ontologies for creating an academic community network using semantic frameworks

  Himanshu Ahuja, Sivakumar R · 2019 · International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) · 4 citations

• Optimizing Query Using the FOAF Relation and Graph Neural Networks to Enhance Information Gathering and Retrieval

  Ahmed Mahdi Abdulkadium, Asaad Sabah Hadi · 2025 · Data and Metadata · 1 citations

• Is There a FOAF in Your Future? Urban Folk Legends in Room 112

  Mary B. Nicolini · 1989 · The English Journal · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Explorer's guide to the Semantic WebThomas B. Passin · 2004

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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