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RDF, Resource Description Framework
theme covered by:
- RDF, topic maps, and the semantic Web [ cover ]
- What is RDF? [ cover ]
- Resource Description Frame-work (RDF) model and syntax specification, Technical report, W3C [ cover ]
- DAML Reference [ cover ]
- DAML+OIL ontology language [ theme ]
has application:
- rdf-application [ application ]
has-objectives
- RDF Evolvability [ objectives ]
- RDF Independence [ objectives ]
- RDF Interchange [ objectives ]
- RDF resource discovery [ objectives ]
- RDF Scalability [ objectives ]
implemented by:
- RDF Browser [ system ]
- PerlRDF [ system ]
is specified by:
- RDF Model Theory [ specification ]
- RDF Primer [ specification ]
- RDFS, RDF Schema [ specification ]
- RDF Test Cases [ specification ]
- RDF/XML syntax [ specification ]
used to represent:
- one particular RDF document [ document ]
is supported by:
- Virtuoso [ system ]
is modelled by:
- RDF Model [ model ]
meta-data-technology
- RDF, Resource Description Framework
xml-application
- RDF, Resource Description Framework
Types:
opinion
good for tagging and simple linking, tractability -- meant for distributed information resources -- unpretty reification -- problems pinpointing resource -- very 'assembler-like'
history
1999: started off as pure metadata framework -- 2003: evolved to generic semantic relationships (emancipation from documents)
motivation
Internet is messy -- mostly text, images, but not 'content' -- search engines have to focus on text (HTML, PDF, ...)
Comment:
only conceptual model -- how instance data is actually store is a separate issue -- there exists several notations: one XMLish (RDF), one not XMLish (N3)
model
describe relationships between resources -- resources addressed via URIs -- everything is an RDF statement -- subject, predicate, value -- all knowledge expressed by a labelled arc -- graph
comment
W3C Standard 1999
agenda
enable not only interoperability on a syntactic level (like XML), but on a semantic level -- application level content exchange