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Book SynopsisThe Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web. This text offers an in-depth exploration of RDF through immediate and solvable problems.
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. RDF: An Introduction The Semantic Web and RDF: A Brief History The Specifications When to Use and Not Use RDF Some Uses of RDF/XML Related Technologies Going Forward; 2. RDF: Heart and Soul The Search for Knowledge The RDF Triple The Basic RDF Data Model and the RDF Graph URIs RDF Serialization: N3 and N-Triples Talking RDF: Lingo and Vocabulary; 3. The Basic Elements Within the RDF/XML Syntax Serializing RDF to XML RDF Blank Nodes URI References Representing Structured Data with rdf:value The rdf:type Property RDF/XML Shortcuts More on RDF Data Types RDF/XML: Separate Documents or Embedded Blocks; 4. Specialized RDF Relationships: Reification, Containers, and Collections Containers Collections Reification: The RDF Big Ugly; 5. Important Concepts from the W3C RDF Vocabulary/Schema RDF Vocabulary: Describing the Data Core RDF Schema Elements Refining RDF Vocabularies with Constraints RDF Schema Alternatives; 6. Creating an RDF Vocabulary How RDF Vocabularies Differ from XML Vocabularies Defining the Vocabulary: Business and Scope Defining the Vocabulary: Elements Formalizing the Vocabulary with RDFS Integrating the Dublin Core; 7. Editing, Parsing, and Browsing RDF/XML BrownSauce Parsers Editors; 8. Jena: RDF in Java Overview of the Classes Creating and Serializing an RDF Model Parsing and Querying an RDF Document In-Memory Versus Persistent Model Storage; 9. RDF and Perl, PHP, and Python RDF/XML and Perl RDF API for PHP RDF and Python: RDFLib; 10. Querying RDF: RDF as Data RDF and the Relational Data Model Roots: rdfDB QL Inkling and SquishQL RDQL Sesame; 11. A Brief Look at Additional RDF Application Environments RDF and C SHARP Wilbur - RDF API CLOS Overview of Redland-a Multilanguage-Based RDF Framework Redfoot; 12. Ontologies: RDF Business Models Why Ontology? Brief History of the Ontology Movement OWL Use Cases and Requirements OWL Specifications Basic Constructs of OWL Bits of Knowledge: More Complex OWL Constructs The Complementary Nature of RDF and OWL Ontology Tools: Editors; 13. Subscription and Aggregation with RSS RSS: Quick History RSS; 1.0: A Quick Introduction A Detailed Look at the Specification Extending the Specification Through Modules The RSS Modules RSS Aggregators Creating Your Own RSS Content Build Your Own RSS Consumer Merging RDF/RSS Files; 14. A World of Uses: Noncommercial Applications Based on RDF Mozilla Creative Commons License MIT's DSpace System Documentation FOAF: Friend-of-a-Friend; 15. A World of Uses: Commercial Uses of RDF/XML Chandler: RDF Within an Open Source PIM RDF Gateway, a Commercial RDF Database Siderean Software's Seamark Plugged In Software's Tucana Knowledge Store RDF and Adobe: XMP What's It All Mean?; Index
