Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, 2nd Edition

Summary

OGP and FOAF demonstrate how fairly simple sets of modeling constructs can be used to create extensible, distributed information networks. They both take advantage of the distributed nature of RDF to allow extension to a network of information to be distributed across the Web.

FOAF takes something of an evolutionary approach to information extension. Many concepts have a broad number of terms (like the several variants of “name” that we examined). FOAF can be extended as new features are needed. For instance, foaf:weblog was not as important before blogging became fashionable, but has now surpassed the more classical foaf:homepage in importance.

OGP is arguably the most successful Semantic Web model ever; less than a year after its introduction, ...