Resource Description Framework
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data model for describing resources on the Web
Key facts
- Filename extension
- .ttl
- Internet media type
- text/turtle
- Developed by
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Standard
- RDF 1.1 Turtle: Terse RDF Triple Language January 9, 2014 ; 12 years ago ( 2014-01-09 )
- Open format
- Yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- technical standard
- Part of
- Web standards
- Creator
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Developer
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Image
- Basic RDF Graph.svg
- Has use
- data exchange
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- notation
- N-Triples
- P13411
- Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
- standards body
- World Wide Web Consortium
- described at URL
- www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-rdf11-concepts-20140225
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/rdf
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10003314
- XML namespace URL
- www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
- Commons category
- Resource Description Framework
- topic's main category
- Category:Resource Description Framework
- inception
- 1997-00-00
- short name
- RDF
- file format identification pattern
- 3C
- different from
- Resource Description and Access
- facet of
- Semantic Web
- P11012
- Loveboat
- P8168
- Daund taluka
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Encyclopedic overview
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a method to describe and exchange graph data. It was originally designed as a data model for metadata by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It provides a variety of syntax notations and formats, of which the most widely used is Turtle (Terse RDF Triple Language).
RDF is a directed graph composed of triple statements. An RDF graph statement is represented by: (1) a node for the subject, (2) an arc from subject to object, representing a predicate, and (3) a node for the object. Each of these parts can be identified by a Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI). An object can also be a literal value. This simple, flexible data model has a lot of expressive power to represent complex situations, relationships, and other things of interest, while also being appropriately abstract.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Resource Description Framework” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.