July 2003
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
9h 45m
English
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Preface
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) offers developers a powerful toolkit for making statements and connecting those statements to derive meaning. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been developing RDF as a key component of its vision for a Semantic Web, but RDF’s capabilities fit well in many different computing contexts. RDF offers a different, and in some ways more powerful, framework for data representation than XML or relational databases, while remaining far more generic than object structures.
RDF’s foundations are built on a very simple model, but the basic logic can support large-scale information management and processing in a variety of different contexts. The assertions in different RDF files can be combined, providing far more information together than they contain separately. RDF supports flexible and powerful query structures, and developers have created a wide variety of tools for working with RDF.
While RDF is commonly described as an arcane tool for working with an enormous volume of complex information, organized with ontologies and other formal models, it also has tremendous value for smaller, more informal projects. I learned about RDF, specifically RDF/XML, when I started working with Mozilla back in the early days of development for this project. At the time, the Mozilla team was using RDF as a way of defining the XML used to provide the data for dynamic tables of contents (TOC) in the application framework. This included providing the data ...
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