Conventions for Knowledge Representation via RDF

The Resource Description Framework [RDF] provides a basic model to describe relationships between objects. Ultimately, it is intended to permit the representation, combination and processing of most types of metadata from Web-accessible documents or databases. However, except for representing simple metadata, its current XML-based syntax [RDF syntax] and the set of basic concept/relation types that have been defined [RDF schema] are insufficient. To make extensions, the users are required to declare new concept/relation types in "schemas" or import schemas from other users. The problem is that similar/identical basic types or features will probably be introduced by various users via different type names or used in different ways, and this prevents the comparison, reuse and combination of the metadata. To maximize the reuse of metadata, we propose some lexical, structural and semantic conventions, inspired from various knowledge representation projects. These conventions would...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: WEBNET
• Authors: Philippe Martin, Peter W. Eklund
• Keywords: Basic Concept/relation Types, Concept/relation Types, Current Xml-based Syntax, WEBNET 2000, WEBNET 2001