An Overview of RDF
by Eric Miller

Table of contents

• An Overview of RDF: Building blocks of the Semantic Web
• Overview
• The Semantic Web: What is it?
• The Semantic Web
• The Semantic Web: The original web realized
• W3C Semantic Web
• Semantic Web Architectrual Dependencies
• Semantic Web Principles
• Semantic Web: building on proven ideas
• RDF/Semantic Web architectural aims
• RDF Model
• What is RDF, really?
• RDF Example: Simple Example
• RDF Example: Strongly typed relationships
• RDF Example: Ask the web
• RDF Example: Collections
• RDF Example: Reification
• RDF Schema
• RDF Schema: Declaration of Semantic Terms
• RDF Schema: Relating Semantic Terms
• RDF Core
• Relationship between RDF and XML
• Basic building blocks
• A little bit about DAML
• Collaboratories
• Potential benifits of RDF and the Semantic Web in Collaboratory Design
• Demonstration
• More information