Linking Through the Semantic Web

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to provide a solution for linking people around a community with the help of Semantic Web and FOAF. The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do; it is a contribution to the linked information system known as the Web.The problem with the majority of data on the Web that is in this form at themomentisthatitisdifficulttouseonalargescale,becausethereisnoglobalsystemfor publishing data in such a way as it can be easily processed by anyone. The Semantic Web can be seen as a huge engineering solution. But it is more than that. We will find that as it becomes easier to publish data in a repurposable form, so more people will want to pubish data, and there will be a knock-on or domino effect. We may find that a large number of Semantic Web applications can be used for a variety of different tasks, increasing the modularity of applications on the Web. But enough subjective reasoning onto how this will be accomplished. In this thesis we described the Semantic Web as a medium of making resources more meaningful to the machine and thus how people can connect with each other more easily.