Resource Description Framework (RDF)

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a data model for Linked Data specified by the W3C.

Data is modeled as a graph of nodes with labeled directed edges.

Vocabularies

• RDF Data Cube Vocabulary (QB)
• DDI-RDF Discover Vocabulary (Disco)
• PROV-O
• PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata
• Web Annotation Vocabulary

Implementations

Implementations for working with RDF existing for many programming languages:

• RDFlib: A Python RDF library.

External Links

• W3C - RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax
• Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV): A site to explore RDF vocabularies.