Occurrences

Acronym Expansion

RDF Vocabulary Description Language

Description

The Resource Description Framework Schema represents a mechanism to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies. The specification defines a basic vocabulary for this purpose, as well as an extensibility mechanism to anticipate future additions to RDF. The RDF data model, as specified in RDFMS, defines a simple model for describing interrelationships among resources in terms of named properties and values. RDF properties may be thought of as attributes of resources and in this sense correspond to traditional attribute-value pairs. RDF properties also represent relationships between resources. As such, the RDF data model can therefore resemble an entity-relationship diagram. The RDF data model, however, provides no mechanisms for declaring these properties, nor does it provide any mechanisms for defining the relationships between these properties and other resources. That is the role of RDF Schema.

W3C specification

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/