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RE: RDF in 4 sentences

• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>,"Xml-Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: RDF in 4 sentences
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:28:31 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C1061BAABC@r...>

>>In RDF, a resource is something that can be identified on the web, and
>>a description is something said about a resource.
>
>Not bad.

Thank you.

>How about a 4 sentences version:
>
>"The WWW made it possible for anyone in the world to publish documents
>about things in such a way that everyone else in the world could locate
>those documents, use them, and in turn make new documents that link to
>them.  HTML was the syntax that made it possible.
>
>The SW hopes to make is possible for anyone in the world to publish
>assertions about things in such a way that everyone else in the world
>can locate them, use them, and in turn make assertions about them.
>RDF/XML is the proposed syntax for this."

Neat.

>One could also add:
>
>"By January 1993, ten minutes on www-talk was enough to turn brother
>against brother.  By January 1995, ten minutes with notepad.exe and
>Netscape was enough to turn the average programmer into a prolific
>publisher of web pages and a passionate WWW advocate.  Brothers lived in
>harmony.
>
>By January 2000, ten minutes on www-rdf-interest was enough to turn
>brother against brother."

LOL!

Cheers,
Danny.

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