This Somethings That: A Short Introduction to N3 and Jena
The theory behind the RDF standard is actually quite simple. Everything has a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), and by this I mean everything: not only documents but also generic concepts and relationships between them. Even though you are not a document (or are you?), there could be a URI assigned to represent you as an entity. This URI can then be used to make connections to other things. For the "you" URI, these connections might represent related organizations, addresses, and phone numbers. URIs do not have to return an actual document! This is what sometimes confuses ...
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