RDF
Dosed by Shivaraj M E – M & E Team (from MphasiS Software Services)
What is RDF?
The Resource Description Framework (RDF), developed under the auspices of the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an infrastructure that enables the encoding,
exchange, and reuse of structured metadata. This infrastructure enables
metadata interoperability through the design of mechanisms that support common
conventions of semantics, syntax, and structure. RDF does not stipulate
semantics for each resource description community, but rather provides the
ability for these communities to define metadata elements as needed.
More on RDF
RDF uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as a common syntax for the exchange
and processing of metadata. The XML syntax is a subset of the international
text processing standard SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language )
specifically intended for use on the Web. The XML syntax provides vendor
independence, user extensibility, validation, human readability, and the
ability to represent complex structures. By exploiting the features of XML, RDF
imposes structure that provides for the unambiguous expression of semantics
and, as such, enables consistent encoding, exchange, and machine-processing of
standardized metadata.
The effective use of metadata among applications requires common conventions
about semantics, syntax, and structure. The design of enabling infrastructures
such as RDF to support these constructs provides the necessary foundations to
support the management of information on the web and provides the ability for
transforming the web into a more useful and powerful information resource.
Further References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
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