24th Jan 2008

Semantic Web Primer 2

clipped from www.xml.com

The Semantic Web: A Primer
by Edd Dumbill
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Pages: 1, 2

Semantic Web Technologies (con’td)

RDF, RDF Schemas and Ontologies


The W3C’s Resource Description
Framework
is one of the cornerstones of Semantic Web work.

the real value of RDF is the data model.
It defines a
very simple data model of triples (subject, predicate, object), where
subject and predicate are URIs, and the object is either a URI or a
literal. With this simple model, objects and their properties may be
represented.
RDF schemas differ somewhat from XML schemas (such as DTDs or W3C
XML Schemas) in that they do not define a permissible syntax but
instead classes, properties, and their interrelation: they operate
directly at the data model level, rather than the syntax level.
Scaled up over the Web, RDF schemas are a key technology, as they
allow machines to make inferences about the data collected from the
web.
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