Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
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RDF Description
uDescription
„Group of statements about the same resource (I.e., a frame)
„RDF element
>Wrapper that marks the boundaries in an XML document of content intended to be mappable into a set of RDF statements
>Syntax:   RDF ::= ‘<RDF’ attributeSpec* ‘>’
>                  descriptionElement* ‘</RDF>’
„Description element
>Identifies the resource being described
>Syntax:
–description ::= ‘<rdf:Description’ idAboutAttr? ‘>’
–                 propertyElement* ‘</rdf:Description>’
–idAboutAttr ::= idAttr | aboutAttr
–aboutAttr ::= ‘about=“’ URI-reference ‘”’
–idAttr ::= ‘ID= “’ IDsymbol ‘”’