RDF

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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,

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

Overviews

  • PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection)

On-line validation

RDF-related web sites

Various to sort out

References

  • Eric Miller An Introductionto the Resource Description Framework (1998), D-Lib Magazine May 1998, ISSN 1082-9873, HTML