Introduction

RDF is a mnemonic standing for Resource Description Framework; i.e. it's a way to describe stuff. We use it to describe all kinds of stuff, aka resources.

RDF as a namespace

The RDF vocabulary known as rdf: has core terms needed to bootstrap things.

• Preferred Prefix: rdf:
• Prefix definition: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
• Group that maintains: W3C Semantic Web Activity
• Vocabulary Homepage: [1]
• Wiki pages that wire this vocabulary into the wiki:Category:rdf
• Ontology: http://www.mindswap.org/cgi-bin/2002/rdfconvert/index.cgi?rdfurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2F02%2F22-rdf-syntax-ns&inputtype=1&outputtype=2 n3

@prefix rdf:       <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .

It isn't a large vocabulary and and schema defining vocabulary's schema in

Usage in this Semantic Wiki

We use terms in this vocabulary in this semantic wiki for some of our markup. To enable that a number of pages exist that advise the wiki software how to treat the terms as well as providing a place for social activities (doc, discustion, etc) about the terms and their usage.

So, in addition to the special page mediawiki:smw_import_rdf these pages include:.

As you can see we don't bother to set up terms in this vocabulary until we need them.