RDF

Major RDF vocabularies

Metadata

• [Learning Object Metadata Standard]
• [Dublin Core]

Syndication

• [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 note on the planned XML-centered framework. (including RDF app.)

• PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection)

Software

• The ICS-FORTH Validating RDF Parser (VRP) (Java, by Karsten Tolle)
• http://www.semanticplanet.com/2003/05/parsingFOAFWithPHPParsing FOAF with PHP Tutorial and code that explains how to use a RDF library.

IMS and IEE LTSC meta-data

• IMS Home Page
• Specifications (long technical document that contains the server/client architecture)
• Metadata Specification (Overview Page)
• Introduction.

1. IEEE LTSC Drafts and Comments

Visualization of RDF

• 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.
• XML co-creator maps the Web in 3D by Evan Hansen, C|Net

References

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