Resource Description Framework
Abbreviation: RDF
Scope: Standard for describing Web resources
Topic: Knowledge Representation, Metadata
Standard body: W3C
Keywords:
XML , XML-based standards , metadata , Semantic Web
Description:
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework specified by a W3C Recommendation, which is used for describing metadata (such as the title, the author, the modification date, the content, etc.) and other knowledge on the web.
Reference(s): Example_RDF.xml
Related Standard(s):
Other standards in the same topic(s):
- Component Metadata Infrastructure
- DCMI Abstract Model
- Data Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
- Distributed Ontology Language
- Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies
- ISLE Metadata Initiative
- Information Technology — Topic Maps
- International Standard Bibliographic Description
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
- NISO Metadata for Images in XML Schema
- Ontology Integration and Interoperability
- Open Language Archive Metadata
- Simple Knowledge Organization System
- Structured vocabularies for information retrieval
- Technical Metadata for Text
- Web Ontology Language
Recommended Reading:
- S. Powers, Practical RDF, O'Reilly Media, 2003.
Abbreviation: RDF-2004
[not official, only for reference in this website]
Status: W3C Recommendation
Release Date:
2004-02-10
- Graham Klyne
- Jeremy J. Carroll
Related Standard(s):
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