Title :
Framework for the semantic Web: an RDF tutorial
Author :
Decker, Stefan ; Mitra, Prasenjit ; Melnik, Sergey
Author_Institution :
Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
The current World Wide Web supports mainly human browsing and searching of textual content. This model has become less and less adequate as the mass of available information increases. What is required instead is a model that supports integrated and uniform access to information sources and services as well as intelligent applications for information processing on the Web. Such a model requires standard mechanisms for interchanging data and handling different data semantics. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a step in this direction. RDF provides a data model that supports fast integration of data sources by bridging semantic differences. It is often used (and was initially designed) for representing metadata about other Web resources, such as XML files. However, representing metadata about the Web is not different from representing data generally. Thus, RDF can be used as a general framework for data exchange on the Web
Keywords :
data models; electronic data interchange; information resources; meta data; RDF data model; Resource Description Framework; World Wide Web; XML files; data exchange; data semantics; fast data source integration; information processing; information services; information sources; integrated uniform information access; intelligent applications; metadata representation; semantic differences; standard data interchange mechanisms; Data models; Humans; Information processing; Internet; Object oriented modeling; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Tutorial; Vocabulary; XML;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4236.895018
