Introduction

The RDF vocabulary known as RDFS contains terms for making statements which define new vocabularies.

• Preferred Prefix: rdfs:
• Prefix definition: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
• Group that maintains: W3C_Semantic_Web_Activity
• Vocabulary Homepage: [1]
• Wiki pages that wire this vocabulary into the wiki:Category:rdfs
• Ontology: http://www.mindswap.org/cgi-bin/2002/rdfconvert/index.cgi?rdfurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema&inputtype=1&outputtype=2

In N3 you'd define this namespace as so:

@prefix rdfs:      <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

Usage in this Semantic Wiki

We use terms in this vocabulary in this semantic wiki to 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_rdfs these pages include:.

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