Summary

This chapter introduced you to RDF. RDF was originally designed to deal with an area of XML that was not yet incorporated into the larger XML architecture. When you are sharing massive amounts of data, it is important to show the relationships between data points. This is where RDF comes into play.

RDF bridges that gap between data points and allows you to put in place the data relations that can make the data more meaningful to the consumer.

This chapter looked at both the XML representation of the RDF document and the RDF graph mode, which is the more common method of representing RDF. Graph models are shown using nodes, arcs, and arc directions.

Finally, this chapter looked at using the Altova's SemanticWorks tool to create RDF graphs and XML.