Global Application Integration with the Semantic Web


...
<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...
   <foaf:firstName>Takashi</foaf...
   <foaf:surname xml:lang="ja">太田</foaf:s...
   <foaf:surname>OTA</foaf:surname>
   <foaf:nick>takot, Takashi</foaf:nick>
   <foaf:nick xml:lang="ja">たこちー</foaf:n...
   <foaf:knows>
      <foaf:Person>
         <foaf:name>SHIMIZU Noritada</foaf...
         <foaf:firstname>Noritada</foaf:fi...
         <foaf:firstname xml:lang="ja">智公...
         <foaf:surname>SHIMIZU</foaf:surname>
         <foaf:surname xml:lang="ja">清水<...
      </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 globally grounded data fabric through which applications can interact..

Eric Prud'hommeaux
12 March, 2004
Keio University, Japan

$Revision: 1.9 $ $Date: 2004/03/20 00:10:50 $

Available at http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/0312-rdf-status/.

These slide contain many pointers -- intended to be used as a resource after the talk is complete.