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About FOAF
FOAF is about your place in the Web, and the Web's place in our world. FOAF is a simple technology that makes it easier to share and use information about people and their activities (eg. photos, calendars, weblogs), to transfer information between Web sites, and to automatically extend, merge and re-use it online.
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.
About the FOAF project
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project began early in 2000 as an "experimental linked information project", created by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller. It reached a wider audience thanks in particular to Edd Dumbill's writings, Leigh Dodds' foaf-a-matic, and the evangelism and creativity of a group of people too large to list here.
FOAF is a small but shapely piece of the wider Semantic Web project. You can learn more about the Semantic Web project at W3C.
About this site
The main Webmaster / sysadmin for the FOAF site (including Wiki, SVN, etc.) is Dan Brickley. You can mail webmaster@foaf-project.org or track him down through other means.
Acknowledgments: many many thanks to Nicole Sullivan for the original Web site design and implementation (including graphics, CSS, XHTML and everything); and also to Stéphane Corlosquet for explaining with infinite patience how to use Drupal, and for porting the original site to run in Drupal. The FOAF logo was contributed by the ever-creative Ian Davis. We also owe Edd Dumbill a huge thank-you for hosting our mailing lists. Last but not least, our 24x7 #FOAF IRC chatlogs are provided by Dave Beckett - thanks all and everyone! See also acknowledgements section of the FOAF specification.
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