RDF
RDF (Resource Description Framework):
- Highlight of WWW 7 conference
- Provides a metadata framework ("machine understandable metadata for the web")
- Based on ideas from content rating (PICS), resource discovery (Dublin Core) and site mapping
- Based on a formal data model (direct label graphs)
- Applications include:
- cataloging resources – resource discovery
- electronic commerce – intelligent agents
- digital signatures – content rating
- intellectual property rights – privacy