Semantic Web

Building on proven ideas

• Combines RDF, XML, Xlink, hypertext and metadata approaches to linked data
• Enable simple applications now that plan for future complexity (eg. Dublin Core, RSS, PRISM, MusicBrainz)
• Focussed on general principles of Web automation and data aggregation

Architectural aims

• Define a convention for applications that exchange metadata on the Web
• XML used for "serialization syntax"
• Enable vocabulary semantics to be defined by communities of expertise, not W3C
• Provide for the fine-grained mixing of diverse metadata

A solution: RDF