This paper addresses the question, "Is RDF a Framework, Data Model or Vocabulary?" The author argues that RDF is simultaneously a framework, data model and basis for building more complex vocabularies; it is both simple and complex at the same time. The author lists his "Top Sixty Benefits of RDF".
URL: http://www.mkbergman.com/wp-content/themes/ai3v2/files/2009Posts/Advantages_Myths_RDF_090422.pdf
Keywords: Semantic Web, RDF Schema, Web Ontology Language (OWL), HTTP URIs, Description Logics, RDBMS
Author: Bergman, M.K.
Publisher: Structured Dynamics LLC
Date created: 2009-04-22 07:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P20M
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: student
Interactivity type: expositive
- Articulates differences between the RDF abstract data model and the XML and relational models.
- Knows the subject-predicate-object component structure of a triple.
- Understands that URIs and literals denote things in the world ("resources") real, imagined, or conceptual.
- Differentiates hierarchical document models (eg, XML) and graph models (RDF).
- Distinguishes the RDF abstract data model and concrete serializations of RDF data.
- Knows that the word "ontology" is ambiguous, referring to any RDF vocabulary, but more typically a set of OWL classes and properties designed to support inferencing in a specific domain.
- Uses RDF Schema to express semantic relationships within a vocabulary.
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