Forum for metadata schema implementers
Semantic Web vision
What is it?
Core architectural principles
Why?
How?
"RDF"
Example
URIs: Everything defined uniquely on the Web
URIs as anchors for merging data
A set of statements
...merged with others
URIs anchor concepts independently of language
Elementary sentences
Partial understanding
Walk before we run
Pie-in-the-sky...
"Schemas"
"Namespace schemas"
"Application profiles"
What profiles say
For what purpose
What RDF profiles do not say
Existing schemas today
Making schemas comparable
Thomas.Baker@gmd.de
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