Resource Description Framework
By: Amina Aiache
Master Degree in Information Systems’ Technologies
https://github.com/Aaiache/WebRDF
What is Semantic Web?
• “The Semantic Web is a web of data, in some ways like a
global database” (https://www.w3.org)
• “First step is putting data on the Web in a form that machines
can naturally understand, or converting it to that form, this
creates what I call a Semantic Web : a web of data that can be
processed directly or indirectly by machines” (Tim Berners-
Lee, Weaving the web. Harper, San Fransisco. 1999)
The problem
• Web pages are written in HTML.
• Machines are not able to understand the meaning behind
information.
• They cannot help us find what we are interested in!
Solution
• A Web where all is about things …
• RDF is A standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
for describing resources in the Web.
• It uses triples to describe things :
o Subject – Predicate – Object
o (Thing) – (Property) – (Value)
Example:RDF description of a person
named Eric Miller
Thank you!

Web RDF

  • 1.
    Resource Description Framework By:Amina Aiache Master Degree in Information Systems’ Technologies https://github.com/Aaiache/WebRDF
  • 2.
    What is SemanticWeb? • “The Semantic Web is a web of data, in some ways like a global database” (https://www.w3.org) • “First step is putting data on the Web in a form that machines can naturally understand, or converting it to that form, this creates what I call a Semantic Web : a web of data that can be processed directly or indirectly by machines” (Tim Berners- Lee, Weaving the web. Harper, San Fransisco. 1999)
  • 3.
    The problem • Webpages are written in HTML. • Machines are not able to understand the meaning behind information. • They cannot help us find what we are interested in!
  • 4.
    Solution • A Webwhere all is about things … • RDF is A standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for describing resources in the Web. • It uses triples to describe things : o Subject – Predicate – Object o (Thing) – (Property) – (Value)
  • 5.
    Example:RDF description ofa person named Eric Miller
  • 6.