ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the Resource Description Framework (RDF)–the standardized way of encoding data for the Semantic Web. RDF tackles identity in true Web fashion by assigning a unique identifier to everything. Since RDF is the primary building block of Linked Data and the Semantic Web, it is important to understand how it works in terms of both its data model and its language and how to interpret the meaning of its constructs, its semantics. RDF/eXtensible Markup Language are commonly used to publish Linked Data, but its syntax is quite verbose, making it difficult for people to read and write. It is worth considering an alternative serialization for managing and curating RDF data, where someone has to interact with the data, or for presenting it to the end user, where the end user needs to be able to understand it easily.
