The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) vocabulary has become one of the most used semantic web ontologies and can be found in millions of RDF documents on the web. FOAF is used to describe basic attributes of people and relationships among them.

The UMBC ebiquity group has published a foaf dataset extracted from FOAF files collected during the Fall of 2004 from our work on Swoogle. The data represents 7118 foaf documents collected from 2044 sites (identified by their symbolic IP address). A total of 201,612 RDF triples with provenance information are included. The foaf files were selected from larger datasets described in several recent papers (1, 2) to represents a interesting and balanced selection of foaf documents. This dataset is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (v2.0) license and packaged as a ZIP file of a SQL database export.

Thanks to Tim Finin for submitting this item !