RDF: Why is it important?
Market demand for deployment
Software infrastructure will be ubiquitous (e.g. free in browsers, servers, proxies, editors, etc.)
RDF provides a model and syntactical framework
Contents of the framework will be determined by stakeholder communities via independently developed and maintained metadata element sets
- e.g.: MARC, DC, TEI, EAD, CIMI, GILS, IAFA, Ratings...