May 23, 2021 RDF
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the W3C standard used to describe network resources, such as the title, author, date of modification, content, and copyright information for a Web page.
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RDF is designed to provide a common way to describe information so that it can be read and understood by computer applications.
The RDF description is not designed to be displayed on the network.
RDF documents are written in XML. The XML language used by RDF is called RDF/XML.
By using XML, RDF information can be easily exchanged between computers that use different types of operating systems and application languages.
In the RDF Tutorials section, we provide you with a simple RDF documentation.
The RDF language is part of W3C's semantic web activities. The goal of W3C's Semantic Web Vision is to:
RDF became the W3C standard in February 2004.
W3C recommendations (standards) are presented as web standards by the industry and the web community. The W3C recommendation is a stable specification developed by the W3C Working Group and reviewed by W3C members.
The official W3C recommendations can be found via this link.