Resource Description Framework

Author: Joshua Tauberer

Organization: Ontomatica

Last revised: January 2008

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Table of Contents

• What is RDF and what is it good for?
  • Really Quick Intro to RDF
  • Why we need a new standard for the Semantic Web
  • Introducing RDF
  • Triples of knowledge
• Reading and Writing RDF
  • Notation 3
  • RDF/XML
  • Use a Validator!
• Distributed Information
  • Choosing the Right Predicates
  • Meshing Information: A Real-World Example
• Comparing RDF with XML
• RDF about RDF
  • RDF Schema (RDFS)
  • Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Linked Data for the Web
  • Terminology
  • Linked Data Under the Hood
• Querying Semantic Web Databases
• Closing Remarks