RDF Schema (2)
- RDF Schema employs RDF model
- expressible using RDF/XML syntax
- Other “ontology languages” building on RDF/RDFS
- e.g. DAML-OIL
- describe more complex relations between entities
- Berners-Lee’s vision of “Semantic Web”
- software agents navigating web of machine-processable descriptions and “ontologies”
- making inferences about data collected
- communicating via “partial understanding”