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#RDF-Schema
Rdf Primer
RDF schemas describe rather than prescribe
One benefit of the RDF property-based approach is that it becomes easier to extend the use of property definitions to situations that might not have been anticipated in the original description. At the same time, this is a "benefit" which must be used with care, to insure that…
Difference between RDF and object oriented languages
One important difference is that instead of describing a class as having a collection of specific properties, an RDF schema describes properties as applying to specific classes of resources, using domain and range properties. For example, a typical object-oriented programming…
RDF Schema provides a type system for RDF.
RDF Schema does not provide a vocabulary of application-specific classes like exterms:Tent, ex2:Book, or ex3:Person, and properties like exterms:weightInKg, ex2:author or ex3:JobTitle. Instead, it provides the facilities needed to describe such classes and properties, and to…