RDF model: one simple idea...

(the same idea that underpins the Web)

"The most fundamental specification of Web architecture, while on of the simpler, is that of the Universal Resource Identifier, or URI. The principle that anything, absolutely anything 'on the Web' should be identified distinctly is core." (Tim BL)

RDF aims to build a Semantic Web of overlapping metadata vocabularies:

• We use URIs to define and name shared metadata vocabularies
• We build 'graphs' using these vocabularies to say things...