[XML4Lib] RDF or XML

[Peter Kiraly]

> On 5/15/07, Peter Kiraly <pkiraly at tesuji.eu> wrote:
>> It depends on your usage plans. RDF is a special kind of XML
>> designed for resource description.
> 
> That's a bit inaccurate; RDF in itself is a data-model with a
That's true, the important things are the math concepts behind.
The XML presentation (and the N3 notation as well) are a presentation
of the RDF graph.

> Of course, as you can see by that statememnt, there's tons of
> ambiguity in it, such as when I say [http://shelter.nu/me.html], what
> resource is that *really*? Me, the human, or my web page (as a web
That's another important problem. Somewhere i read a good sentence:
'Even a lamp may has an URI'.

>> [...] it is behind RSS news feeds etc.
> 
> No, that's not entirely correct; RSS version 2.0 is an RDF/XML
> representaion, but it's far from the most popular RSS version. I think
> 0.94 and 1.0 are by far more popular, because, frankly, they're easier
> to grasp.
The full name of 1.0 is 'RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0'
http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/. 

> A handy book to understand all of this is "The Explorer's Guide to the
> Semantic Web" (http://www.manning.com/passin/) [with the disclaimer
> that I was the technical editor].
That's great book, congratulation! It's perfect for a new commer.
And as i check now it's not in Ivan's list.

peter kiraly
http://www.tesuji.eu/flash

ps. My wording wasn't very correct in some points, but i think, that
it's a more complex topic to sketch up in 8-10 accurate sentences. 
At least with my ability...