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semantic web

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Resource Description Framework

(RDF)
developed by
World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C)
RDF
• Is the foundation for processing metadata.
• Enables automated processing of web
resources.
• Provides a generic metadata architecture.
• Uses XML as its language.
Applications of RDF

• In resource discovery.
• In cataloging.
• Digital Libraries.
• Intelligent Software Agents.
• Web of trust.
RDF model:
model

Presents an abstract, conceptual view framework for


defining metadata.
It is based on the following concepts.
• Resources: These are the things being described by RDF
expressions. e.g.www.umr.edu or a part of it e.g.
www.umr.edu/~madrias.
• Property: Is a specific aspect, characteristic, attribute or
relation used to describe a resource.
• Statement: A statement in RDF consists of
resource + property + value

subject predicate object


example
For the statement “Sanjay Madria is the creator of the web page
www.umr.edu/~madrias.
We have RDF statement as

Subject(resource) www.umr.edu/~madrias

Predicate(property) creator

Object(literal) “Sanjay Madria”

And node and arc diagram as

www.umr.edu/~madrias Sanjay Madria


Example:

For the statement “Sanjay Madria is the creator of


the resource www.umr.edu/~madrias
We have the RDF syntax(using XML) as:
<rdf:RDF>
<rdf:Description about=“www.umr.edu/madrias”>
<s:Creator>Sanjay Madria</s:creator>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
RDF schema

Provides the mechanism for declaring properties and also defining


relationship between these properties and other resources
S=rdfs:subclassOf t=rdf:type rdfs:label
rdfs: Literal rdfs:Resource
t s t t
rdfs:Class rdfs:comment
t
rdf:Property t
t t
rdfs:isDefinedBy
t
rdfs:ConstraintResource rdfs:seeAlso
t t t s t
rdfs:subPropertyOf
s s t t t t rdfs:subCLassof
rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty
rdfs:type

rdfs:range rdfs:ConstraintProperty rdfs:domain


s
Example

s
t rdf:class t rdf:Resource
t t
t s t
s xyz:Motor Vehicle
xyz:Van
s s
s t
xyz:Passenger Vehicle
s

xyz:Mini Van xyz:Truck


Example: Product Portfolio – RDF View

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rights reserved
Advantages:

• Interoperability of metadata
• Machine understandable semantic discovery
• better precision in resource discovery.
• Uniform query capability for resource
discovery
Conclusion

• Distributed Information on web.


• Metadata
• Introduction to RDF
• The various concepts of RDF.

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