RDF - Data notation

RDF, aka Resource Description Framework, is a data notation created in 1997.

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The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It has come to be used as a general method for conceptual description or modeling of information that is implemented in web resources, using a variety of syntax notations and data serialization formats. It is also used in knowledge management applications. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: dataNotation
Early development of RDF happened in W3C
See also: (9 related languages) OWL, XML, Turtle, JSON, Unicode, SPARQL, SQL, Python, JSON-LD
8 PLDB concepts link to RDF: Bossam Rule Language, Microdata HTML, Notation3, OEM, SHACL, SUSN, TriG syntax, underlay

Example from Wikipedia:

@prefix rdf:  <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix dc:   <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn>
    dc:publisher "Wikipedia" ;
    dc:title "Tony Benn" ;
    foaf:primaryTopic [
        a foaf:Person ;
        foaf:name "Tony Benn"
    ] .

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Triples	✓
Type Inference	✓