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RDF

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What is RDF?

RDF is a Resource Description Framework. In case of all Semantic Web Frameworks, a Framework is seen as an application to store, manipulate, and use meta data. The underlying format in this casse being XML.

The Rules for RDF are:

1. A Resource is anything that can have an URL.

2. A Property is an entity that has title or name and can be used as a proerty.

3. A Statement consists of a combination of resource and properties and value.

4. A straight forward method for expressign these as abstract properties in XML.

See Also:

XML.com's What is RDF

Using RDF with examples

Official specification
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