> [!tldr] An [[Resource Description Framework|RDF]] vocabulary for people.
> [!quote] Wikipedia
> **FOAF** (an acronym of **[friend of a friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_a_friend "Friend of a friend")**) is a [machine-readable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_data "Machine-readable data") [ontology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_\(information_science\) "Ontology (information science)") describing [persons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person "Person"), their activities and their relations to other people and objects.
> [!example]
> ```turtle
> @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
> @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
> @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
>
> <#JW>
> a foaf:Person ;
> foaf:name "James Wales" ;
> foaf:mbox <mailto:
[email protected]> ;
> foaf:homepage <http://www.jameswales.com> ;
> foaf:nick "Jimbo" ;
> foaf:depiction <http://www.jameswales.com/aus_img_small.jpg> ;
> foaf:interest <http://www.wikimedia.org> ;
> foaf:knows [
> a foaf:Person ;
> foaf:name "Angela Beesley"
> ] .
>
> <http://www.wikimedia.org>
> rdfs:label "Wikimedia" .
> ```
****
# More
## Source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF