What is RDF?
The resource description framework (RDF), is an XML-based application being developed in the W3C…
It brings together ideas from the meta content format, or MCF (technology acquired by Netscape from Apple Computer Inc.) and XML-Data (defined in a proposal recently submitted to the W3C by Microsoft, ArborText, DataChannel, and Inso).
RDF allows for generalized searching of information without application-specific rules, such as those defined in DTDs. RDF allows a complementary view of data through graphs and nodes, rather than through a structured tree, which the current XML technology enables. RDF, together with XML schemas, will provide a standard way for developers to write these relationships down for broad classes of XML elements.
The crucial technologies that will deliver value this year and next are XML for structured data, XML namespaces to make names unique and recognizable, and new XML tags that add meaning to data so smarter search engines can perform better searches.
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