FOAF Manager

The Internet is full of websites and social networks that require users to have identity profiles. You generally need a separate profile for each website. The idea behind the FOAF Manager prototype is to centralize the different profiles in one place using the FOAF specification as the identity ontology.

The FOAF Manager prototype demonstrates that, using the Semantic Web standards proposed by W3C, it is possible to integrate the different profiles the user has for different social applications. Thanks to the ontology put forward by the Friend-of-a-Friend project, the most relevant identity concepts can be expressed using a common vocabulary.

The FOAF Manager prototype features these functions:

• Editing, managing and publishing of FOAF instances expressed in RDF/XML.
• Importing personal information from three source types:
  • Social networks.
  • FOAF instances stored in the FOAF Manager's repository.
  • FOAF instances published on the Internet.
• Automatic merging of different identities in a single FOAF profile.
• Digital signing of FOAF instances in two different formats:
  • A Syntactic signature, which is a standard detached XML digital signature. This type of signature guarantees the syntactical integrity of the FOAF instance, i.e., it facilitates detecting if any change has been made to the content.
  • A Semantic signature, which is a new digital-signature format based on the Semantic Web standards and developed experimentally by Safelayer. Users can select what sections of data of their profiles they want to sign.

This work was partially subsidized by the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) as part of the SEGUR@ project, reference CENIT-2007 2004 of the CENIT program (part of the INGENIO 2010 initiative).

You may have different identity profiles in the Internet, and with FOAF Manager, now you can easily centralize and merge these profiles by using the FOAF specification as the identity ontology. Don’t fill out any more forms, you can import your information from different social networks and make your new profiles available in the Internet.

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Easily merge your different identities in a single FOAF