Using FOAF To Support Community Building

This page contains access to the paper on "Using FOAF To Support Community Building" published in the Upgrade digital journal of CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), October 2005 issue.

Please note that this paper is a reprint of a paper published in the IADIS 2004 conference proceedings. See <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/iadis-2004/foaf/> for further details.

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Citation Details

Using FOAF To Support Community Building, Kelly, B., and Dodds, L. Upgrade, digital journal of CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), October 2005 issue. ISSN 1684-5285.
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/upgrade-2005/>.

Abstract

The Semantic Web seeks to build a global distributed database through the integration of data from independent communities without the requirement for prior agreement on the structure of this data. This basic concept can be applied to the development of online communities. This paper outlines the potential for the FOAF Semantic Web technology to ensure that resources can be defined in a way that promotes their ability for being shared with third-parties with a minimum of integration effort. The paper outlines FOAF's potential for community-building in conferences.

Keywords

FOAF, Friend Of A Friend, Semantic Web, Community Building

Contact Details

Mr Brian Kelly UKOLN The Library University of Bath BATH UK BA2 7AY

Leigh Dodds ingenta Lower Bristol Road Bath BA2 3DZ leigh@ldodds.com

CV of Authors

Brian Kelly provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education Communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector in the area of the Web.
Brian is based in UKOLN - a national centre of excellence in digital information management, based at the University of Bath, UK.

Leigh Dodds is an Engineering Manager employed by Ingenta where he is responsible for the ongoing development of the IngentaConnect Web site, a large aggregation of academic research content.
Leigh has been developing with Java, XML, and Semantic Web technologies for a number of years and has released several small open source applications and APIs. He has also contributed code and documentation to several open source projects.