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What does all this mean?  Well, FOAF is an acronym for Friend of a Friend.  It is a Semantic Web vocab­u­lary for describ­ing peo­ple, their activ­i­ties and their rela­tion­ships to one another.  This allows you to describe your­self online and makes it eas­ier to net­work with oth­ers, and grow your network.

Web crawlers, that build indexes for the search engines, can start at one FOAF pro­file and using the links that are in the form of foaf:knows, which describe who you know, a search engine crawler can move from one pro­file to the next fol­low­ing these links.  It may become obvi­ous that this is a great way to net­work your­self, your busi­ness, your orga­ni­za­tion, your books, pub­li­ca­tions and more.

 

Kasabi is a linked data mar­ket­place.  In my blog arti­cle “Introduction to the Semantic Web” I spoke about a giant global data­base.  That is what the Semantic Web is all about, and linked data is one more way to describe some of the goals of the Semantic Web.   Using stan­dard for­mats for rep­re­sent­ing infor­ma­tion, in web pages and in “triple stores,” which are “Open” data­bases, we are able to link data, aka knowl­edge, infor­ma­tion, from one web­site, or data­base to another.  Information can be shared and com­bined… Information can be dis­cov­ered.  In addi­tional, we can make a smarter web by help­ing Search engines and sim­i­lar tools of the Semantic Web to per­form more accu­rate searches because now there is more infor­ma­tion that they can use.  This infor­ma­tion is exposed in a stan­dard­ized way that lets any­one across the web to dis­cover the data, use the infor­ma­tion, share the infor­ma­tion, and link to it in var­i­ous other ways.

 

This is the Semantic Web Dream of a Giant Global Graph.  In the pre­vi­ous post men­tioned above on my blog arti­cle “Introduction to the Semantic Web” I pre­sented the infor­ma­tion in the form of a graph.  You have a triple rep­re­sented by a sub­ject pred­i­cate object.  Bruce knows Elee.  This can be graphed with ellipses for the sub­ject and object and an arrow that rep­re­sents knows and points from Bruce to Elee.

 

Kasabi is one tool that makes it easy to pub­lish your data, the infor­ma­tion or knowl­edge that you have… the asser­tions that you can make and that can add to the col­lected knowl­edge held on the web.

Related arti­cles

• The Semantic Web Media Summit (theconferencecircuit.com)

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