RDF Schemas

• Declaration of vocabularies

  • properties defined by a particular community
  • characteristics of properties and/or constraints on corresponding values

• Schema Type System - Basic Types

  • Property, Class, SubClassOf, Domain, Range
  • Minimal (but extensible) at this time
  • minimize significant clashes with typing system designed for XML NG DTDs (1999?)

• Expressible in the RDF model and syntax

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