Tools
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.
Using FOAF for authentication in webapps:
* SharedID: Single Sign On via FOAF
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 * Other CoolStuff * ...others
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). * [1]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. * [2] A simple FOAF generator. * PonG DAML - A tool to keep your address book up to date (via XMLRPC) and generates foaf. * [3] 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). * [4] PHPWiki Basic Foaf Profile Viewer - in progress, part of wider effort to Foaf Enable applications like PHPwiki, phpbb, phplist etc. Similar to SharedID. * [5] 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
