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RDF Schemas
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  • Adding metadata and using it from a program works…
  • … provided the program knows what terms to use!
  • We used terms like:
    • Chart, LabelledBy, IsAnchor, ...
    • ChartType, GraphicsType, ...
    • etc
  • Are they all known? Are they all correct?
  • It is a bit like defining record types for a database
  • This is where RDF Schemas come in
    • officially: “RDF Vocabulary Description Language”

Ivan Herman, W3C 50 (134)