- 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
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| Q: Are you sure?
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