Hi, As probably everyone on the list knows, there's a lot of negative opinions of RDF out there, and it seems like some of this stems from a confusion of RDF the XML format and RDF the general method for expressing knowledge. But, I haven't come across a deep explanation of what RDF-the-method is that we can point people to so they know there's more to RDF than the serialization format. I know such a document may very well exist, but I figured I would take a stab at writing one myself. (If it has no value for anyone else, at least I gained a deeper understand of RDF by writing it :-). What I wrote is posted at: http://taubz.for.net/code/semweb/whatisrdf/ The goal was to introduce RDF from the beginning, show why it's useful for modeling knowledge in a distributed way, and to give a basic presentation of RDFS and OWL. It's long for an introduction as I tried to be as explicit as possible about what defines RDF (at least in my understanding of RDF). A shorter to-the-point version could be synthesized from this. Comments welcome, especially if you think it was worth the time writing. :) -- - Joshua Tauberer http://taubz.for.net ** Nothing Unreal Exists **Received on Monday, 3 October 2005 22:22:42 GMT
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