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[edit] FoaF Creators

  • Create a FoaF file with LeighDodds' FOAF-a-matic
  • or FoaF Creator, which uses formsPlayer and XForms.
  • foafme as a swing gui to to roundtrip editing and Jena backend.
  • scifoaf a java webstart application using the PubMed bibliographic database.
  • Elmo is a Java API for FOAF available at openrdf.org
  • vIdentity creates FOAF, (example,) though it's limited in what you can express.
  • Export Address Book to FOAF is an AppleScript for Mac OS X that allows users to manage their FOAF profile from within the Address Book.
  • Morla is a RDF editor. With Morla you can manage more RDF documents simultaneously, visualize graphs, use templates for quick writing and exec SPARQL/RDQL queries. There are templates for FOAF Person, FOAF Personal Profile Document, FOAF Image, etc..
  • FOAFDrive is another FOAF wizzard entirely written in JavaScript, goal is to have an online FOAF editor/aggregator.

[edit] Using FOAF for authentication in webapps

[edit] Aggregators, user interfaces, visualization systems etc.

(let's collect links first, reorganise as we go...)

  • A FoafWebBrowser like PeopleLink or FoafExplorer lets you see people's FOAF pages by a web interface.
  • FoafNaut lets you view FOAF pages by SVG.
  • Zopto: Foaf community
  • eikeon's FOAF: Web View
  • Elmo contains a set of tools for crawling, smushing and validating FOAF profiles
  • myfoafexplorer java 1.5 applet used to browse a scientific network (papers, groups,...) based on FOAF
  • FOAF-inator is a FOAF navigation tool developed in PHP.
  • FOAFMap: Display FOAF profiles (groups and personnal) on a Google Map
  • Zitgist
  • Other CoolStuff
  • ...others

[edit] What user-oriented software packages are exploring FOAF support?

  • does FOAFNaut count? It's software, but it's a webpage, it's an SVG and Javascript webpage application thingumy, ...
  • foafbot will chat to users in an IRC channel, recounting things it has learned from reading the Web of FOAF documents.
  • Spring v1.3+ has some FOAF support (see foaf weblog for detail).
  • WinRSS has support for FOAF (through connecting to FoaF Explorer).
  • Semaview An interesting application of the semantic web which brings together an Office XP addin to publish your contacts in RDF format to a webservice which then forms communities based on your friends.
    • [1] A simple FOAF generator.
  • PonG DAML - A tool to keep your address book up to date (via XMLRPC) and generates foaf.
  • [2] Bourne shell scripts for maintaining and generating foaf.
  • FoafGeoGraph Perl script to extract geo information from FOAF files and plot them using xplanet. Shows how to use XML::FOAF for the simple things such as the name, and how to use RDF::Core::Statement to get at more than one seeAlso and the geo:lat and geo:long inside the foaf:based_near (as well as fetching foaf files from the web).
  • [3] PHPWiki Basic Foaf Profile Viewer - in progress, part of wider effort to Foaf Enable applications like PHPwiki, phpbb, phplist etc. Similar to SharedID.
  • [4] Basic Foaf plugin for Movable Type - in progress, uses XML::Foaf to give access to FOAF data from Movable Type templates
  • Flink is a dynamic presentation of the social network of the Semantic Web community, extracted from webpages, publications, emails and FOAF profiles. Flink also exports the aggregated data in FOAF format.
  • Java source code from Hewlett Packard's SemanticBloggingProject (A voluminous project report is available here)
  • Trust-forum project of a free software of new webmail in PHP with a trust system, aims to include a publication system of RDF data for dating
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