- From: Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:22:07 -0400
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
All -- Forgive a newb-ish question from a newly nominated member... I'm struggling with authoritatively answering a conversational question -- "What *is* RDF?" -- without falling back to markup and serialization. I can't find a canonical definition that satisfies my understanding of the reality. I've found several different descriptions, but none feel much like a definition beyond acronym expansion, and they disagree with each other -- even the 3 TRs which were published simultaneously -- 1. "RDF is a standard model for data interchange on the Web." - <http://www.w3.org/RDF/> 2. "The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web." - <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/> 3. "The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web." - <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/> 4. "The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web." - <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-schema-20040210/> 5. "The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It has come to be used as a general method for conceptual description or modeling of information that is implemented in web resources, using a variety of syntax formats." - <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework> Is there an existing authoritative answer (which maybe even the most sacred historical electronic document might be updated to point to, even as it retains its operational definition in-line for historical context)? Thanks for your help, Ted -- A: Yes. http://www.guckes.net/faq/attribution.html | Q: Are you sure? | | A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. | | | Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? Ted Thibodeau, Jr. // voice +1-781-273-0900 x32 Evangelism & Support // mailto:tthibodeau@openlinksw.com // http://twitter.com/TallTed OpenLink Software, Inc. // http://www.openlinksw.com/ 10 Burlington Mall Road, Suite 265, Burlington MA 01803 http://www.openlinksw.com/weblogs/uda/ OpenLink Blogs http://www.openlinksw.com/weblogs/virtuoso/ http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/ Universal Data Access and Virtual Database Technology Providers
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