What is RDF?
- Effective use of metadata requires appropriate conventions
for:
- semantics (defined by single disciplinary
communities)
- syntax (organization of data elements for automatic
processing)
- structure (formal constraint on the syntax)
- RDF:
- basis for coding, exchanging and
reusing structured metadata
- allows interoperability among applications
exchanging machine-understandable information on the
web
- RDF is for the Semantic Web what HTML has been for the
web
