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Semantic Web, RDF
Resource Description Framework


  • Statements can be modeled (mathematically) with:
    • Resources: an element, a URI, a literal, …
    • Properties: directed relations between two resources
    • Statements: “triples” of two resources bound by a property
      • usual terminology: (s,p,o) for subject, property, object
  • RDF is a general model for such statements
    • can be expressed in XML or other syntax (eg, n3)

Ivan Herman, W3C 49 (76)