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Resource Description Framework: The Complete Documentation

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• The last paper was added on 2007-03-26 (YYYY-MM-DD)

RDF Primer

Published on January 23, 2003, by Frank Manola, ©World Wide Web Consortium.

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. It is particularly intended for representing metadata about Web resources, such as the title, author, and modification date of a Web page, copyright and licensing information about a Web document, or the availability schedule for some shared resource. However, by generalizing the concept of a "Web resource", RDF can also be used to represent information about things that can be identified on the Web, even when they can't be directly retrieved on the Web. RDF provides a common framework for expressing this information so it can be exchanged between applications without loss of meaning.

RDF Semantics

Published on January 23, 2003, by Patrick Hayes, ©World Wide Web Consortium.

This is a specification of a precise semantics for RDF and RDFS, and of corresponding entailment and inference rules which are sanctioned by the semantics.

RDF Test Cases

Published on January 23, 2003, by Jan Grant, ©World Wide Web Consortium.

This document describes the RDF Test Cases deliverable for the RDF Core Working Group as defined in the WG's Charter.

RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema

Published on January 23, 2003, by Dan Brickley, ©World Wide Web Consortium.

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web. This specification describes how to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies. This specification defines a vocabulary for this purpose and defines other built-in RDF vocabulary initially specified in the RDF Model and Syntax Specification.

RDF/XML Syntax Specification

Published on January 23, 2003, by Dave Beckett, ©World Wide Web Consortium.

This document defines an XML syntax for RDF called RDF/XML in terms of XML Namespaces, the XML Information Set and XML Base. The formal grammar for the syntax is annotated with actions generating triples of the RDF Graph as defined in RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax. This is done using the N-Triples RDF Graph serializing format which enables more precise recording of the mapping in a machine processable form. The mappings are recorded as tests cases, gathered and published in RDF Test Cases.

Resource Description Framework (RDF), Model and Syntax Specification

Published on February 22, 1999, by Ora Lassila, ©World Wide Web Consortium.

The World Wide Web was originally built for human consumption, and although everything on it is machine-readable, this data is not machine-understandable. It is very hard to automate anything on the Web, and because of the volume of information the Web contains, it is not possible to manage it manually. The solution proposed here is to use metadata to describe the data contained on the Web. Metadata is "data about data" (for example, a library catalog is metadata, since it describes publications) or specifically in the context of this specification "data describing Web resources". The distinction between "data" and "metadata" is not an absolute one; it is a distinction created primarily by a particular application, and many times the same resource will be interpreted in both ways simultaneously.

Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax

Published on January 23, 2003, by Graham Klyne, ©World Wide Web Consortium.

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web.