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Describing web resources using formal knowledge (i.e., creating metadata according to a formal representation of a domain of discourse) is the essence of the next evolution step of the Web, termed the Semantic Web. The W3C’s RDF/S (Resource Description Framework/Schema Language) enables the creation and exchange of resource metadata as normal web data. In this paper, we investigate the use of RDFS schemas as a means of knowledge representation and exchange in diverse application domains. In order to reason about the quality of existing RDF schemas, a benchmark serves as the basis of a statistical analysis performed with the aid of VRP, the Validating RDF Parser. The statistical data extracted lead to corollaries about the size and the morphology of RDF/S schemas. Furthermore, the study of the collected schemas draws useful conclusions about the actual use of RDF modeling constructs and frequent misuses of RDF/S syntax and/or semantics.
This work has been partially supported by the EU Projects OntoWeb (IST-2000-29243) and Question-How (IST-2000-28767).
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- Resource Description Framework
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- Resource Description Framework Data
- Multiple Inheritance
- Property Hierarchy
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Magkanaraki, A., Alexaki, S., Christophides, V., Plexousakis, D. (2002). Benchmarking RDF Schemas for the Semantic Web. In: Horrocks, I., Hendler, J. (eds) The Semantic Web — ISWC 2002. ISWC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2342. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48005-6_12
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