Fundamentals of Resource Description Framework
Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies and Linked Data
These slides appear to have been used for a course in Database Management Systems at the University of Toronto, but contain material which the creator [...]
Recognizing, Naming and Exploring Structure in RDF Data
This master's thesis seeks to apply research into RDBMS - which has led to mature techniques for storing and querying data - to the problem [...]
An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework
This early article describes the RDF Data Model in its simplest form. Provides introduction, background information, and presents simple RDF syntax. MUCH has happened since [...]
Linking Spatial Data: Semi-Automated Conversion of Geoinformation Models and GML data to RDF
Linked Data provides an alternative route for the dissemination of spatial information compared to the traditional Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) approach. The [...]
Namespaces and Application Profiles
These slides are lectures notes from a unit of the course, "Organization of Information and Resources" which was taught at the University of Washington. The [...]
Application Profiles as Machine-Understandable Narratives
The SCHEMAS Registry aims at providing a selected and annotated overview of metadata vocabularies and their use in application environments. Based on harvested metadata in [...]
Combining RDF and XML Schemas to Enhance Interoperability Between Metadata Application Profiles
The term Application Profile (AP) has recently become highly topical, with initiatives demanding APs which combine elements from a number of different existing standardized metadata [...]
Application Profiles: Exposing and Enforcing Metadata Quality
This paper explores a range of issues yet to be addressed in the large-scale use of application profiles. While considerable attention has been paid to [...]
From Interoperability to Harmonization in Metadata Standardization
In this doctoral thesis, the author presents a solution-oriented analysis of current issues in metadata harmonization. A set of widely used metadata specifications in the [...]
Formalizing Dublin Core Application Profiles Description Set Profiles and Graph Constraints
This paper describes a proposed formalization of the notion of Applications Profiles as used in the Dublin Core community. The formalization, called Description Set Profiles, [...]