==FOAF==

===起源===
http://www.slideshare.net/danbri/dagstuhl-foaf-history-talk

* RDFWeb 2000-2 
** hacker project of Libby Miller, Dan Brickley and our friends from the RDF Interest Group, W3C, RSS and XML tech scene. 
** Used RDFS and DAML+OIL to document our work, ... as a means not an end. 
** Early themes: PGP, digital signature and trust, crawlers, linking, photo annotation.

===how is got big===
* Libby Miller’s Java/Squish RDF query tools 
* Edd Dumbill (of xml.com) wrote a nice article on IBM DeveloperWorks.com 
* Leigh Dodds created foaf-a-matic script, Ian Davis (amongst other things) our logo 
* RDF IG community built some early apps 
* By 2003, Ecademy and TypePad exports 
* In 2004, LiveJournal, Tribe, FOAFNet, ..

與其說是仔細規劃的產物，不如說是 XML技客間的充滿了技術性幽默的人際關係網路應用。

後繼
[[XFM]]