Image    48 Resource Description        Framework (RDF)

Nicholas Gibbins and Nigel Shadbolt

CONTENTS

Introduction

The Triple Model

Comparing XML and RDF

Feature Summary

Classes

Properties

Containers and Collections

Reification

Ancillary Properties

Syntax

Semantics

Comparison of RDF Schema and OWL

History

PICS

MCF

RDF (1999 Version)

Conclusion

References

Bibliography

INTRODUCTION

The Resource Description Framework,[1] or RDF, is a knowledge representation language for the Semantic Web,[2,3] and is used to express knowledge about things both on and off the Web; RDF can be used to write metadata about web pages and to describe real-world objects with ...

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