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RDF Relationship to Other Formats Current Status

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: Linked Data.

Completed Work

W3C Recommendations have been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation Track.

Group Notes are not standards and do not have the same level of W3C endorsement.

Standards

2012-09-27

R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language

translations · errata

This document describes R2RML, a language for expressing customized mappings from relational databases to RDF datasets.

2012-09-27

A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF

translations · errata

This document defines a direct mapping from relational data to RDF.

2007-09-11

Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)

translations · errata

GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. This GRDDL specification introduces markup based on existing standards for declaring that an XML document includes data compatible with the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and for linking to algorithms (typically represented in XSLT), for extracting this data from the document.

The markup includes a namespace-qualified attribute for use in general-purpose XML documents and a profile-qualified link relationship for use in valid XHTML documents. The GRDDL mechanism also allows an XML namespace document (or XHTML profile document) to declare that every document associated with that namespace (or profile) includes gleanable data and for linking to an algorithm for gleaning the data.

Group Notes

2012-08-14

RDB2RDF Implementation Report

This document reports on implementations of the Direct Mapping specification, and R2RML specification. The main purpose of this document is to show that each feature of the Direct Mapping and R2RML has been implemented by demonstrating interoperable implementations of each feature. To evaluate the coverage of an implementation's features, the RDB2RDF Test Cases are used as a point of reference.

2012-08-14

R2RML and Direct Mapping Test Cases

This document defines the R2RML and Direct Mapping Test Cases deliverable for the RDB2RDF Working Group as defined in the Working Group's Charter.

2006-02-10

A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a model developed by the W3C for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. Topic Maps is a standard for knowledge integration developed by the ISO. This document contains a survey of existing proposals for integrating RDF and Topic Maps data and is intended to be a starting point for establishing standard guidelines for RDF/Topic Maps interoperability.

2005-09-29

RDF Calendar - an application of the Resource Description Framework to iCalendar Data

This is a sample short description for this specification; over time we will replace this description with a real one.

2000-09-29

Harvesting RDF Statements from XLinks

Both XLink [XLink] and RDF [RDF] provide a way of asserting relations between resources. RDF is primarily for describing resources and their relations, while XLink is primarily for specifying and traversing hyperlinks. However, the overlap between the two is sufficient that a mapping from XLink links to statements in an RDF model can be defined. Such a mapping allows XLink elements to be harvested as a source of RDF statements. XLink links (hereafter, "links") thus provide an alternate syntax for RDF information that may be useful in some situations.

This Note specifies such a mapping, so that links can be harvested and RDF statements generated. The purpose of this harvesting is to create RDF models that, in some sense, represent the intent of the XML document. The purpose is not to represent the XLink structure in enough detail that a set of links could be round-tripped through an RDF model.

1999-10-07

The Cambridge Communiqué

This document is a report of the results of a meeting of a group of W3C Members involved in XML and RDF to advance the general understanding of a unified approach to the expression of Web data models. This document is one response to the Web data architecture discussed in "Web Architecture: Describing and Exchanging Data".

1998-08-04

A Discussion of the Relationship Between RDF-Schema and UML

This is a sample short description for this specification; over time we will replace this description with a real one.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: Last Call Drafts, other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Last Call Drafts

2013-05-21

Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0

This document defines data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes called the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 is the successor of ITS 1.0; it is designed to foster the creation of multilingual Web content, focusing on HTML5, XML based formats in general, and to leverage localization workflows based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF). In addition to HTML5 and XML, algorithms to convert ITS attributes to RDFa and NIF are provided.

2013-02-07

HTML+RDFa 1.1

This specification defines rules and guidelines for adapting the RDFa Core 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications for use in HTML5 and XHTML5. The rules defined in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules.

Other Working Drafts

2013-03-07

Metadata for the Multilingual Web - Usage Scenarios and Implementations

An overview of usage scenarios and implementations demonstrating applications of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. The usage scenarios are ranging from simple machine translation or human translation quality check to training for machine translation systems or automatic text analyis.

2010-06-08

Use Cases and Requirements for Mapping Relational Databases to RDF

These use-cases document the need to expose data from relational databases (RDB) as RDF on the Web of data, and so deliver a set of functional requirements for a standardized mapping language.