This document is a revision of the public working draft dated 1998-08-19 incorporating suggestions received in review comments and further deliberations of the W3C RDF Model and Syntax Working Group. With the publication of this draft, the RDF Model and Syntax Specification enters "last call

Abstract. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a way how to model ontologies (i.e. concepts and relationships among these concepts) in the Semantic Web. Generally, RDF is a collection of triples, each consisting of a subject, a predicate and an object. This set of triples is also known

Abstract. In this paper we describe RDFSync, a methodology for efficient synchronization and merging of RDF models. RDFSync is based on decomposing a model into Minimum Self-Contained graphs (MSGs). After illustrating theory and deriving properties of MSGs, we show how a RDF model can

Abstract. The ability to compute the differences that exist between two RDF models is an important step to cope with the evolving nature of the Semantic Web (SW). In particular, RDF Deltas can be employed to reduce the amount of data that need to be exchanged and managed over the network and hence

Abstract. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) has gained importance as a database technology for the storage and retrieval of information on network and human resources. This paper describes a method to create RDF models from a directory information tree or an LDAP search query by mapping

We discuss an approach for targeted transformations of content to open sets of devices. The key element of this approach is the RDF Model that represents devices as sets of generic features and represents content resources as sets of components. The other key element is the RDF server utilizing

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) has gained importance as a database technology for the storage and retrieval of information on network and human resources. This paper describes a method to create RDF models from a directory information tree or an LDAP search query by mapping LDAP

The basic result presented is the following: with two (hopefully) reasonable assumptions about the intentions behind RDF model, it can be shown that the RDF model and a model allowing for nested triple and lists of resources and triples, can be mapped to one another (in both directions

Annotea is a Web-based shared annotation system based on a general-purpose open RDF infrastructure, where annotations are modeled as a class of metadata. Annotations are viewed as statements made by an author about a Web document. Annotations are external to the documents and can be stored in one

Abstract. Entailment, as defined by RDF’s model-theoretical semantics, is a basic requirement for processing RDF, and represents the kind of “semantic interoperability ” that RDF-based systems have been anticipated to have to realize the vision of the “Semantic Web”. In this paper we give some