Title RDF Primer W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004

Authors
Editors: Frank Manola, fmanola@acm.org Eric Miller, W3C, em@w3.org
Series Editor: Brian McBride, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com

Reference RDF Primer W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004

Year 2004

URL http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/

My Summary
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. This Primer is designed to provide the reader with the basic knowledge required to effectively use RDF. It introduces the basic concepts of RDF and describes its XML syntax. It describes how to define RDF vocabularies using the RDF Vocabulary Description Language, and gives an overview of some deployed RDF applications. It also describes the content and purpose of other RDF specification documents.

Methods
RDF triple notation for knowledge graphs.

Systems Integration Relevance
RDF and RDFS are part of the SW language stack. OWL is based on RDF.
A proper understanding of RDF is mandatory for people involved in the RDI group.

Keywords
RDF; resources; metadata;