RDF Model

• one simple idea... (the same idea that underpins the Web)
• • "The most fundamental specification of Web architecture, while one of the simpler, is that of the Universal Resource Identifier, or URI. The principle that anything, absolutely anything, ‘on the Web’ should identified distinctly is core. (Tim Berners-Lee)
• RDF aims to build a Web of overlapping metadata vocabularies
• We use URIs to define metadata vocabularies
• We build graphs using these vocabularies to say things...