- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:11:39 -0600
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
> [[The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for > representing information in the Web.]] I hate to nitpick, but this isn't really true. RDF isn't a language, it's a framework. Part of that is RDF/XML, which is a format. But even RDF/XML doesn't represent information. More accurately, it encodes it. And the Web--that's a whole 'nother can of worms. Now we get into issues of whether my poodle is the Web. (And if so, will he get eaten by a spider?) The best description I've heard is one I got from DanBri: The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for describing resources. To provide a little more information we might want to say: The Resource Description Framework (RDF) provides an simple abstract syntax, an XML-based encoding, and a mathematical model for describing resources. -- Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com] "Curb your consumption," he said.
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