RDF Objectives
Enables communities to define their own semantics of resource descriptions
- we can disagree about semantics, but share the same infrastructure (syntax, editors, query languages, databases, etc.)
Imposes structural constraints on the expression of metadata in various application contexts
- for consistent encoding, exchange and processing of metadata on the Web
Facilitates development of metadata vocabularies without central coordination
- mechanisms for reusing descriptions of resources, concepts, etc.
Focus on DBMS technology for RDF metadata
- Related W3C efforts on XML data management