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FOAF data and where to get it....

• See also Foaf Sites list in the ESW Wiki

Contents 1 Scutter Plans 2 Scutter Dumps 3 Bulk FOAF Exports 3.1 Bridges 4 Sites and tools that export FOAF 5 Misc (including Convertors, Scrapers, Filters) 5.1 Misc notes

Scutter Plans

There is a Web of interlinked FOAF files. You should be able to start at any FOAF file that is linked to the main network, and find the rest. Here are some well-known and well-connected Scutter entry points:

• Jim Ley's rdf view of the FOAFBulletinBoard
• GoogleScutterNoChatLogs -- generated from a search for the FOAF namespace in Google
• Libby's codepiction scutter plan
• Morten's scutterplan based on FoaF Explorer usage
• Simon's scutterplan
• ...others?

Scutter Dumps

Several people in the FOAF community run their own Scutter and are willing to share the results of their efforts.

If you want to share your data, add yourself to the table below which should include download url(s) and some indication of formats

Name	Download URL(s)	Smushed?	Notes
Billion Triples Challenge 2009	[1]	No	Approximately 40 million FOAFs
SWSE Data Dump	[2]	No	Crawled from TimBL's FOAF
Jim Ley's Triplestore	[3]	Yes, old ones, the newest is 38mb and not smushed - raw rdf/xml files are also available	These are dumps from MySQL tables, rather than raw triples. MortenFrederiksen has [4] a script for converting the dump to NTriples]

Bulk FOAF Exports

Are there any sites who bulk expose their (your!) user info as FOAF RDF/XML documents? Or are discussing this?

Early days, but here's an attempt at a tabular summary (please help fill out the blanks... table structure may evolve though...). First we list sites with native FOAF export facilities.

Bridges

• Twitter: http://semantictweet.com/
• FB: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mrowe/foafgenerator.html
• Flickr: http://apassant.net/blog/2007/12/18/rdf-export-flickr-profiles-foaf-and-sioc/ (currently down but should be live again soon)
• delicious http://foaf.qdos.com/delicious/people/
• myspace http://dbtune.org/myspace/

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Sites and tools that export FOAF

Name	Sample	eg.	Info, discussion	Contact(s)	Notes
LiveJournal	freso	rdf	LJ community: ljfoaf	LJ user: crschmidt	Produces limited information (contact, mostly) along with :interests and :knows data.
DeadJournal	crschmidt	rdf	LJ community: ljfoaf	LJ user: crschmidt	Clone site of LiveJournal, uses same code as LiveJournal
MyOpera	Opera Employees	rdf	Exports FOAF for both groups and persons	Kjetil Kjernsmo	In active development
identi.ca	Evan Prodromou - site creator	rdf	Exports FOAF for contacts and some personal data from profile	Evan Prodromou	Open source microblogging
MyBlogLog	User Profile	rdf	Exports FOAF for contacts and online accounts	John Sampson	Distributed Social Network
Fotothing	dom	dom	-	Dom Ramsey	Photo blogging community site
Videntity.org	User Profile Page	rdf	Exports FOAF for profile pages	Dan Libby	social network with FOAF, XFN and OpenID. full data dump should be coming soon
Friendfeed	User Profile	rdf	Exports FOAF for profile subscriptions and friends	Bret Taylor	Feed aggregator with social aspects
23pools	bandri	rdf	-	-	see user docs
Ecademy	-	-	-	Julian Bond	-
meinbild	danbri	rdf	@@rdfweb-dev thread	Bernhard A. M. Seefeld (re FOAF)	uses nick not name (many anon users); extra 'depiction' properties.
TypePad	danbri	rdf	-	Ben Trott	Produces and consumes
Delete?	Marked for Deletion
Plogs	crschmidt	rdf	LJ community: ljfoaf	LJ user: crschmidt	DEAD asof Nov 2009 -- Clone site of LiveJournal, uses same code as LiveJournal
TheBHG	Someone	-	-	-	DEAD asof Nov 2009 -- Uses foaf:Group and nick, some groups have no IFP but main bhg group does
unixpunx	Mutiny	rdf	Support to add friends ('knows') is underway	Craig	DEAD asof Nov 2009 -- Designed around the PostNuke CMS

To add:

• ESW List
• Cocolog (Nifty's Japanese TypePad installation, ????)
• [5]

Misc (including Convertors, Scrapers, Filters)

Some more sites and discussion, including convertors, scrapers, filters:

• sixapart discussion on FOAF relating to Movable Type.
• Ben Hammersley (amongst others) has shown how to add FOAF support to Movable Type's RSS feed, the popular weblogging system. He uses dc:creator for the author of an item, and full FOAF for each comment.
• Leigh Dodds has written a simple utility to create a FOAF description from an Advogato profile, this extends his earlier sketch of a mapping of Advagato fields into FOAF
• see also OpenJournal notes in ESW wiki
• see also Mena Trott's article about meeting Howard Dean (Mena of TypePad fame)
• others? Tribe, Plaxo, LiveJournal, ...

Dead(ish) Links

• vCard and LDIF to FOAF batch-converter/editor [6]
• danbri notes to self: check out http://pgh4dean.org/ and talk to Chris re Amnesty International link (via zacker)
• part of Howard Dean's US presidential campaign; nearby: Blog for America site
• sample entry danbri in html, danbri in FOAF
• Deanspace
• exposes basic FOAF descriptions for several thousand campaign supports, including links between them
• at time of writing support is new, seems undocumented, not sure if urls will change etc... so I've not linked from main table above --DanBri
• contact: Zakcer (on campaign staff, see his intoduction) and typepad FOAF and deanspace FOAF.
• a Drupal-based community site (used elsewhere, @@voidstar/libdems? hmm would Amnesty International use it maybe?)
• SlashFoaf (slashdot/slashcode add-ons) documented in a separate page (but see for starters)
• Ben Hammersley on TypePad's expected FOAF support.
• the DotGnu project are investigating FOAF and RDF (for an identity system and to support project collaboration)
• gnuherds.org discussion
• Ecademy export foaf (need better url for info on this); interesting re debates about whether to make this opt-in, how much to expose, etc (search Ecademy site for 'foaf').
• guru's network (exposes subset of your profile as foaf, provides editing screens for contact lists etc.)
• LiveJournal (FOAF support bugzilla entry)
• discussion about exposing FOAF from livejournal.com (LJ thread).
• pdigity in #foaf suggests we talk to brad@danga.com who started the project, maybe propose a perl add-on (need to think re privacy issues...).
• LiveJournal support is now complete and live.

Misc notes

From #deanspace:

• <crschmidt>: danbri, foafinate is purely DFA, so it's not in any CVS. If you want a copy of it, you'd have to ask zacker about it.
• <danbri>: DFA?
• <crschmidt>: DeanForAmerica.
• <drumm>: its on tthe official side of things
• <drumm>: we here on the unofficial side askedd for it so users can get some of their info filled when they register on a deanspace-powered site
• <danbri>: Ah, righto
• <danbri>: There's two sides of this for everyone I guess: once you've entered the data, allow it to be exported in FOAF. vs when you're entering, allow a FOAF or FOAF-linked homepage URL to populate a profile...