Metadata and Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Marian F. Ursu · 2003
• resource = any object • any object that can be identified uniquely by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) plus an optional anchor • our understanding associates some information/knowledge with each resource • it would be dangerous to say that this information/knowledge is inherent to the resource, because the subjective nature of understanding/interpreting would be lost • however, we could say that in many situations, there is an agreed understanding • without the above assumption, the metadata initiative would simply not be possible