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Usage
Resource Description Framework is not a metadata standard unto itself.
Rather, it is a framework for relating metainformation generated by various
communities. Since many implementations of RDF so far have come from the
library community, which generally follows a fairly restricted set of
rules for description, it has been difficult to understand the benefit.
RDF is not necessarily designed to improve human understanding but rather
to provide a more concrete structure for computer systems to understand
and compare metadata from various sources.
Creator
RDF is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Revisions
Version 1.0 of the RDF was released in March 2000.
Ease of use
Complex.
Documentation
http://www.w3c.org/rdf/
Thesauri
None, though RDF is closely related to another Semantic Web working area,
Ontologies.
Projects
OCLC's CORC makes extensive use of RDF for metadata interchange.
Granularity
Does not apply
Data for original and surrogate
Does not apply
Metadata types
Does not apply
