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What is FOAF?

FOAF (Friend of a Friend) is a way of describing people, their activities, and their relationships to other people and objects. FOAF allows groups of people to truly open social networks without the need for a centralised database.

The FOAF project (http://www.foaf-project.org) was started in 2000 by Libby Miller and Dan Brickley. Today there are many millions of FOAF profiles published on the Web and it is growing daily. FOAF is a great way to build large scale, open social networks that are controlled by individual users and not by any one single company.

One of the challenges with FOAF is to make it more accessible, and Garlik's contribution is to make available a new QDOS FOAF service that allows people to search and browse millions of FOAF files in a user friendly way. Our aim is to index and make visible the entire FOAF universe and we will continue to extend, update and publish this index for free, to encourage wider use of FOAF for building social networks.