RDF Resource Description Framework
- Web evolution: from machine-readable and human-understandable to
machine-understandable data
- Automated processing of Web resources
- examples: search engines, cataloging, expressing privacy
preferences...
- Mechanism for describing resources about any domain
- Application neutral
- Metadata: "data about data"
- Describing relationships among resources in terms of named properties
and values.
- RDF information model: graph structure describing resources and
properties
- XML syntax for encoding and transporting metadata
