Network configuration with RDF

bullet1 About RDF

bullet2 What is RDF?

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is:

  • A general metadata format
  • Used to represent information about Internet resources, and more
  • Defined by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [1] [2]
  • The base information format for the "Semantic Web" [3]
  • Semantic Web extends the expressive capability of the Web:

Augments human-readable web pages with machine-processable information

RDF is essentially very simple, but the current specification for RDF obscures that simplicity by focusing rather on arcane details of the XML syntax.

[1] http://www.w3.org/

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax

[3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/