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* The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. | * The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. | ||
* Originally RDF was primarily intented to represent metadata about Web resources, such as the title, author, and modification date of a Web page, copyright and licensing information about a Web document, or the availability schedule for some shared resource. However, by generalizing the concept of a "Web resource", RDF can also be used to '''represent information about things that can be identified on the Web'''. | * Originally RDF was primarily intented to represent metadata about Web resources, such as the title, author, and modification date of a Web page, copyright and licensing information about a Web document, or the availability schedule for some shared resource. However, by generalizing the concept of a "Web resource", RDF can also be used to '''represent information about things that can be identified on the Web''', i.e. the [[semantic web]]. | ||
== Major RDF vocabularies == | == Major RDF vocabularies == | ||
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* [http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/index.html Mozilla's RDF pointers] | * [http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/index.html Mozilla's RDF pointers] | ||
* [http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/rdf.html Oasis Resource Description Framework (RDF)] | * [http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/rdf.html Oasis Resource Description Framework (RDF)] | ||
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-rdfarch W3C Data Formats] A note on the planned XML-centered framework | * [http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-rdfarch W3C Data Formats] A older (1997) note on the planned XML-centered framework | ||
* [http://www.w3.org/PICS/ PICS] (Platform for Internet Content Selection) | * [http://www.w3.org/PICS/ PICS] (Platform for Internet Content Selection) | ||
Revision as of 18:08, 10 November 2006
Definition
- The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web.
- Originally RDF was primarily intented to represent metadata about Web resources, such as the title, author, and modification date of a Web page, copyright and licensing information about a Web document, or the availability schedule for some shared resource. However, by generalizing the concept of a "Web resource", RDF can also be used to represent information about things that can be identified on the Web, i.e. the semantic web.
Major RDF vocabularies
- Metadata
- Content syndication and social software
- RSS 1.0 which is not very popular, most RSS formats are not RDF since bloggers don't understand issues related to the semantic web :)
- FOAF Friends-of-a-friend vocabulary for person networks
Links
Standards
- RDF Primer
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) Overview
- The Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax.
- SPARQL Query Language for RDF (last checkedwas: W3C Working Draft 17 February 2005)
Overviews
- Mozilla's RDF pointers
- Oasis Resource Description Framework (RDF)
- W3C Data Formats A older (1997) note on the planned XML-centered framework
- PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection)
On-line validation
Various to sort out
- Supercharging WSDL with RDF Managing structured Web service metadata article by Uche Obbuji
- Rudolf: RDFViz Exploring tools for RDF Graph Visualisation by Dan Brickely, project page.
References
- Eric Miller An Introductionto the Resource Description Framework (1998), D-Lib Magazine May 1998, ISSN 1082-9873, HTML