Knowledge Standards
When you start looking down the road five or six years, and you visualize how the information on the Web will begin to turn into one huge knowledge base (the “semantic Web”). For the latest on the semantic Web, visit http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/.
In the meantime, here are the fundamental standards you'll want to know about.
RDF
Resource Description Framework is a standard for defining metadata: information that describes what a particular data item is and specifies how it can be used.
Used in conjunction with the XHTML specification, for example, or with HTML pages, RDF could be used to describe the content of the pages. For example, if your browser stored your ID information as FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME, and EMAIL, an RDF description ...
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