Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: What is RDF?
Author: Ken MacLeod Posted: 8/21/2000; 9:44:24 AM Topic: What is RDF? Msg #: 19876 (In response to 19875) Prev/Next: 19875 / 19877
I'm surprised there aren't "basic" tools available. An RDF query tool isn't really much different from a basic XML query tool. The power of RDF is agreeing on the semantics of particular element names (RDF properties), not in how they're represented.For example, any *ML document can have a
element, but do all <title>s really mean the title of a document, book, message, etc.? No, some <title>s may be organizational titles or awards.<p> RDF provides the underlying framework so people can begin using common element names within their documents/data. <a href="http://purl.org/dc/documents/rec-dces-19990702.htm">Dublin Core</a> is one effort for defining a set of common tags for "library catalog" type information.<p> If a *ML document says "we use Dublic Core elements", you can be pretty confident that when you do an XML/RDF query for "dc:title" you're gonna get the <title> of a document, book, message, etc. and not an organizational or awarded title. <br><br><hr><b>There are responses to this message:</b><ul><li> <a href="msg019877.html">Re: What is RDF?</a>, Ken MacLeod, 8/21/2000; 10:09:32 AM<p></ul> <br><br><hr>This page was archived on 6/13/2001; 4:56:08 PM.<br><br>© Copyright 1998-2001 <a href="http://www.userland.com/">UserLand Software</a>, Inc. </blockquote></blockquote> </body> </html>