Introduction to RDF
The label we just dissected is critical to the Web's future
- Beyond machine-readable to machine-understandable
The RDF effort unites a wide array of players
- Digital librarians, content-raters, privacy advocates, ...
- Significant industrial momentum, led by W3C
1. The Data Model
- Resources, properties, and statements
2. The Syntax
- Rendering into XML with Namespaces
3. The RDF Schema
- Using RDF to describe new vocabularies
Implications & Applications