Tim Berners-Lee Date: September 1998. Last modified: $Date: 1998/10/14 20:17:13 $ Status: An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture of the Semantic WWW. Editing status: Draft. Comments welcome Up to Design Issues Semantic Web Road map A road map for the future, an architectural plan untested by anything except thought experiments. This was written as part of a requested road map ...

Tim Berners-Lee Date: September 1998. Last modified: $Date: 1998/09/17 20:10:41 $ Status: . Editing status: Comments please. An parenthetical discussion to the Web Architecture at 50, 000 feet. and the Semantic Web roadmap. Up to Design Issues Parenthetically, so as not to disturb the flow of what a semantic web is, ...what it is not, and how other data models map into directed labelled graphs.

Tim Berners-Lee Date: September 1998. Last modified: $Date: 1998/10/14 20:17:13 $ Status: An attempt to explain the difference between the XML and RDF models. Editing status: Draft. Comments welcome! Up to Design Issues Why RDF model is different from the XML model This note is an attempt to answer the question, Why should I use RDF - why not just XML . This has been a question which has been ...

Storing RDF in a relational database This page summarizes some current approaches to storing RDF in a relational database. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR COMMENTS, so please do contribute your ideas (www-rdf-interest@w3.org)! To goal is to come up with the best way of storing RDF in a relational database, or identify a set of solutions that are suitable for particular needs. Motivation We need to be able ...

A Query and Inference Service for RDF Stefan Decker (University of Karlsruhe Stefan.Decker@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de ), Dan Brickley (University of Bristol daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk ), Janne Saarela (World Wide Web Consortium jsaarela@w3.org ), Jurgen Angele (University of Karlsruhe jan@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de ) Abstract The creation of RDF raises the prospect of a widely accepted standard ...

Query + Metadata + Logic = Metalog Massimo Marchiori, Janne Saarela {massimo, jsaarela}@w3.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model&Syntax Specification describes a metadata infrastructure which can accommodate classification elements from different vocabularies i.e. schemas. The underlying model consists of a labeled directed acyclic graph which can ...