rdf

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rdf - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Resource Description Framework
  RDF
  
     <World-Wide Web, specification, data> (RDF) A specification
     being developed in 2000 by the W3C as a foundation for
     processing meta-data regarding resources on the Internet,
     including the World-Wide Web.
  
     Resource Description Framework data consists of resources
     (nodes), and property/value pairs describing the resource.
     A node is any object which can be pointed to by a URI,
     properties are attributes of the node, and values can be
     either atomic values for the attribute, or other nodes.  For
     example, information about a particular web page (a node),
     might include the property "Author".  The value for the Author
     property could be either a string giving the name of the
     author, or a link to a resource describing the author.
  
     Resource Description Framework only specifies a mechanism for
     encoding and transferring meta-data.  It does not specify what
     that meta-data should, or can be.  RDF does not, for example,
     define an "Author" attribute.  Sets of properties are defined
     within RDF Vocabularies (or Schemas).  Anynone can create an
     RDF schema, describing a specialized set of properties, by
     creating a resource, referenced by the Schema URI, which
     provides a human- and machine-understandable definition of the
     schema's properties.  The description of a node may include
     properties defined in different schemas.  The properties
     within a resource description are associated with a certain
     schema definition using the XML namespace mechanism.
     Schemas currently being developed include a content screening
     system modeled after PICS, and a bibliographic vocabulary,
     such as the Dublin Core Initiative.
  
     (http://w3c.org/RDF/).
  
     W3C Resource Description Framework-RDF Model and Syntax Specification (http://w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/)
     .
  
     (2000-03-25)
  

rdf - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  RDF
         Record Definition Field
         

  RDF
         Rate Decrease Factor
         

  RDF
         Resource Description Framework (XML, IBM, Netscape, MS, ..., WWW)