FOAF is a project devoted to linking people and information using the Web. Regardless of whether information is in people's heads, in physical or digital documents, or in the form of factual data, it can be linked. FOAF integrates three kinds of network: social networks of human collaboration, friendship and association; representational networks that describe a simplified view of a cartoon universe in factual terms, and information networks that use Web-based linking to share independently published descriptions of this inter-connected world.

Prefix

foaf

Preferred Prefix

foaf

Keywords

ontology people

Links

Homepage OWL

Contact

Rafael Gonçalves

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

familyName   Resolve

Example CURIE

foaf:familyName

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

Semantic Web Context

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier familyName is used to demonstrate the providers available for Friend of a Friend. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.