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