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RDF is short for Resource Description Framework. RDF is the language for describing resources and contents in the semantic web. In the semantic web RDF is used to describe resources on the web. Resources are addressed by a unique URI. A URI looks like a normal Internet URL. Look at the following fragment of a RDF file: <?xml version="1.0"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" xmlns="http://example.org/pets#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xml:base="http://example.org/pets"> <owl:Class rdf:ID="Goldfish"> [...]
December 3rd Protege 4.0 was released. So, what is new in this version? First of all it supports the OWL 2.0 specification, which is approaching approval. Other new features in this release are: support for editing multiple ontologies, menu drag and drop user interface elements, the ability to import from repositories on the web and more. Anyway, you can download it here.
Are you getting errors about the “RA layer request failed” and “svn: PROPFIND request failed on ..”, followed by an error about not being able to connect to the SVN server? Well, here is what to do: Install the latest Subclipse plugin for Eclipse. Read the manual at Subclipse Set the right proxy settings at the Subversive-config-file (usuallylocated at C:\Documents and Settings\MyUserId\Application Data\Subversion\servers). At the bottom of the file you’ll find http-proxy-host and http-proxy-port. Uncomment [...]
Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework. The Protégé platform supports two main ways of modeling ontologies via the Protégé-Frames and Protégé-OWL editors. Protégé ontologies can be exported into a variety of formats including RDF(S), OWL, and XML Schema. Visit website
