Network configuration with RDF

bullet1 Why RDF?

bullet2 Re-use of information designs

Sometimes this is called "Ontology".

In the network access experiment, two existing voabularies were re-used:

  • FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) [1], originally minted by Dan Brickley for experimenting with connections between people.  It has since grown into a rough-and-ready vocabulary for describing common things about people.
  • VCALENDAR [2], an RDF vocabulary for iCalendar (RFC 2445 [3]) to describe calendar events and schedules.  A new RDF vocabulary for iCalendar is in development [4], related to the SWAD-E project.

It is easy to see that a common RDF vocabulary of network properties could be shared amoung disparate applications performing network management related functions.

[1] FOAF, friend-of-a-friend: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/

[2] VCALENDAR "hybrid" vocabulary by Libby Miller and Michael Arick, http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/2001/06/schemas/ical-full/hybrid.rdf

[3] RFC2445, Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar), http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

[4] RDF Calendar Workspace, http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/