Network Working Group D. Connolly Internet-Draft World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Category: Informational March 2001 A media type for Resource Description Framework (RDF) Status: Internet-draft-to-be see: mime-types-for-rdf-docs raised Wed, 14 Jun 2000. I'm looking for a co-author to do the other 80% of the work. Introduction @@a few words about RDF @@note that publication of RDF in HTTP or sending via SMTP amounts to asserting the content. 2. Registration of MIME media type model/xml+rdf MIME media type name: application MIME subtype name: xml+rdf Required parameters: none Optional parameters: charset The optional parameter "charset" refers to the character encoding used to represent the HTML document as a sequence of bytes. Any registered IANA charset may be used, but UTF-8 is preferred. Although this parameter is optional, it is strongly recommended that it always be present. [@@really??] Connolly, Dan [Page 1] Internet Draft RDF media type Mar 2001 @@See Section 6 below for a discussion of charset default rules. Encoding considerations: See Section 4 of this document. Security considerations: See Section 7 of this document. Interoperability considerations: @@ Published specification: cite RDF 1.0 (which cites XML, URI, ...) Applications which use this media type: dublin core? RSS? PRISM? cwm.py? sirpac? Additional information: Magic number: @@look for RDF ns URI? File extension: The file extension 'rdf' is commonly used. (also: .rss?) Macintosh File Type code: @@???TEXT Person & email address to contact for further information: Dan Connolly (anybody want their name in lights in my stead?) Intended usage: COMMON Author/Change controller: The RDF specification is a work product of the World Wide Web Consortium. Connolly, Dan [Page 2] Internet Draft RDF media type Mar 2001 3. Fragment Identifiers @@ The URI specification [URI] notes that the semantics of a fragment identifier (part of a URI after a "#") is a property of the data resulting from a retrieval action, and that the format and interpretation of fragment identifiers is dependent on the media type of the retrieval result. 4. Encoding considerations see mime/XML spec 5. Recognizing RDF files @@skip this section?> Acknowledgements/@@Fodder Andy Powell, for raising the issue. Jim Davis for his HTML->internet-draft tool ( Makefile ) Larry Masinter for help with process gunk on our last RFC . ietf-xml-mime mailing list oops... I thought RDF would fit under mode/*, but after reading RFC2077 , I see model/* is about physica/spacial models only, not about abstract models in general. Is there a UML media type registered yet? Author's Address Daniel W. Connolly World Wide Web Consortum (W3C) MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. mailto:connolly@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ Connolly, Dan [Page 3] Internet Draft RDF media type Mar 2001 References [mime] alskfdj [xmlmime] Jan 2001:IETF Proposed Standard: XML Media Types [rdf1] aslfdj Connolly, Dan [Page 4]