How does the FOAF tag form part of the Semantic Web and Web services via social networks?
FOAF is an acronym for Friend of a friend and it is an organized computer readable collection of information describing people, their connections with other people, the activities they are involved in and all other relevant entities. FOAF allows an individual’s personal information to be transferred between Web sites, organize it and then group them into relevant social networks without the need for a centralised database. FOAF tags contribute to the semantic web through collecting and collating data using a software system designed to support machine to machine interaction over a network (Web services) making it feasible for the web to recognise and fulfill the requests of people and machines to use the World Wide Web.
References
http://www.foaf-project.org/about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(software)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ontology
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