RDF

Resource Description Framework

Standard http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222

Validator http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ (w3c)

Note One key difference between the transient message form and the persistent form is that rdf:about is used to identify the resource, however, it is not declared in-line using an ID. This is an important principle for serializing RDF models for SOAP transmission: to avoid in-line declarations. Given that we could fix the base location for the ID using xml:base, such a principle might seem unnecessary, but it is hard to imagine any clear semantics for the life-cycle and ownership of in-line transmitted resources.

Statement slightly modified from Uche Ogbuji Using rdf with soap see also SOAP

About SPARQL, the rdf query language http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/549

Some notes and a must-read-slide show on ltu.

A nice article how RDF should be used to collect meta data of our daily work: http://usefulinc.com/articles/2004/desktop-metadata . Nice to read, since that's what BALL implements for the Askemos network.

How RDF and OWL work together http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/01/1616208 .

Some Guidance on expressing the Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework.