Lessons Learnt From FOAF: A Bottom-Up Approach To Social Networks

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This page contains details of a presentation on "Lessons Learnt From FOAF: A Bottom-Up Approach To Social Networks" which was presented at the JISC-CETIS Conference 2005 in Edinburgh on 15-16^th November 2005.

The paper was presented in the "Collaboration and Innovation" session from 13:30-16:30 on 15^th November 2005 (see session details). The talk lasted for 20 minutes.

Abstract

This talk will describe FOAF - the "Friends of a Friend" Semantic Web application. The talk will give a history of the development of the FOAF vocablary and FOAF applications and outline the potential of FOAF applications in the support of collaboration.

This talk will also describe some of FOAF's apparent failings to live up to its initial potential and discuss possible reasons for this. This will then lead into a general discussion of the lessons which can be learnt.

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Related Resources

• Using FOAF To Support Community-Building, B. Kelly and L. Dodds, IADIS 2004 WBC Conference, <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/iadis-2004/foaf/>
• Use of FOAF, Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004, <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/foaf/>
• The FOAF Project, <http://www.foaf-project.org/>
• FOAF (Software), Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(software)>