RDF Application Overview


...
<foaf:Person>
   <foaf:name>Takashi OTA</foaf:name>
   <foaf:name xml:lang="ja">太田尚志</foaf:name>
   <foaf:title>Mr</foaf:title>
   <foaf:firstName xml:lang="ja">尚志</foaf:firstName>
   <foaf:firstName>Takashi</foaf:firstName>
   <foaf:surname xml:lang="ja">太田</foaf:surname>
   <foaf:surname>OTA</foaf:surname>
   <foaf:nick>takot, Takashi</foaf:nick>
   <foaf:nick xml:lang="ja">たこちー</foaf:nick>
   <foaf:knows>
      <foaf:Person>
         <foaf:name>SHIMIZU Noritada</foaf:name>
         <foaf:firstname>Noritada</foaf:firstname>
         <foaf:firstname xml:lang="ja">智公</foaf:firstname>
         <foaf:surname>SHIMIZU</foaf:surname>
         <foaf:surname xml:lang="ja">清水</foaf:surname>
      </foaf:Person>
   </foaf:knows>
</foaf:Person>
...

W3C specifications define the RDF language as well as ontologies defining terms for class and property hierarchy and for description logic. This provides a basis for applications including syndication, social network description, document annotation and others.

Eric Prud'hommeaux
14 Nov, 2003
Keio University, Japan

$Revision: 1.10 $ $Date: 2003/11/18 07:26:44 $

Available at http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/14-Nov-RDFApp/.

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