The author of http://www.w3.org/2000/Talks/0526-FIBV-ak
is Alan Kotok
  - RDF Model and Syntax
    now a W3C Recommendation
 
  - formal model for structured metadata
 
  - properties have URIs
 
  - assertions (statements) have URIs
 
  - subject of all statements is unambiguous
 
  - syntax adopts XML