[Tdwg-tag] RDF resources
Roderic Page
r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
Thu Mar 23 23:33:44 CET 2006
There are various resources you might want to take a look at.
Perhaps a good place to start is "From XML to RDF: how semantic web
technologies will change the design of 'omic' standards"
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1139), which presents reasons for moving
from XML to RDF.
There are various introductions on the web, for example
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rdf/ (bit old now). Tim
Bray's article (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/24/rdf.html) may also
be useful. PlanetRDF has lots of stuff (and I do mean lots)
(http://planetrdf.com/guide/).
Because a lot is going on in the world of RDF, I've found reading blogs
of some of the key players to be useful. Danny Ayers
(http://dannyayers.com/) has some very useful stuff, probably more
helpful for getting your head around the mindset. RDF is one of those
things that you may need to have the "ahhh" moment when it suddenly
clicks why it's potentially cool. I've found reading Danny's blog has
been helpful in this respect.
I got into this area via LSIDs, which in one sense are distinct from
RDF, but for me I "got" LSIDs once I saw what one could do with all the
RDF they are associated with. I have a manuscript on LSIDs, RDF, and
taxonomic names that might be of interest
(http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/lsid/examples/lsid.pdf).
The other reason I got into this is via facetted browsing, which is an
approach to browsing metadata-rich information using "facets". Again,
this doesn't need RDF as such, but RDF and associated triplestores make
this thing pretty straightforward to do. For a simple example see
http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/index.html (which is driven by RDF).
Silobreaker (http://www.silobreaker.com/corporate/) is this sort of
approach on steroids.
Regards
Rod
On 23 Mar 2006, at 20:15, Javier de la Torre wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that so much is being discussed about RDF I was wondering if
> someone could point me to some good resources where I can learn more
> about it. I think there are several people right now trying to catch
> up with this technology so some help would be really appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Javier.
>
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