RDF

Date added 3 November 2006
Last edited 17 November 2009

Full Title

Resource Description Framework

Description

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing metadata, about Web resources or identifying things in the World Wide Web. It is a machine processable interoperable language, enabling data to be modelled so that information can be readily exchanged between applications. Designed as a metadata model, it is usually expressed in XML, and is a major component of the developing semantic web, where the meaning of information and services on the web is defined. An RDF statement is based on triples so that the relationships between things being described are defined through 3 properties: the subject, the predicate and the object. This enables searches on the Web to be more meaningfully fulfilled.

Standards Developing Organisation

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

Rights

No information available.

Lifecycle Actions

Access, Use and Reuse

Create or Receive

Standard Framework

Digital Archive Standards

Standard Type

XML DTD and Schema

Current Version

10 February 2004 - RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) [external]

Further Information

Wikipedia entry for Resource Description Framework [external]

RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema [external]

Alternative Current Versions

None.

Previous Version

Referenced Standards