From Semantic Web Standards

Publication date: 2004-02-10 (with a previous version published at: 1999-02-22) Created by: RDF Working Group List of documents at: http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/rdf

RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema (RDFS)

Overview

RDFS is a general-purpose language for representing simple RDF vocabularies on the Web. Other vocabulary definition technologies, like OWL or SKOS, build on RDFS and provide language for defining structured, Web-based ontologies which enable richer integration and interoperability of data among descriptive communities.

Recommended Reading

The RDFS is part RDF Specification suite Recommendations, published in 2004. This suite also includes an RDF Primer that covers the basic RDFS features, too.

A number of textbooks have been published on RDF, RDFS, and on Semantic Web in general. Please, refer to a separate page listing some of those, as maintained by the community. That list also includes references to conference proceedings and article collections that might be of general interest.

Tools that are listed as relevant to RDFS

(Note that you can browse tools per tool categories or programming languages, too.)

Last modified and/or added

The description of the following tools have been added and/or modified most recently.

• The SPARQL2XQuery Framework (last modified: 29 December 2011)
• The SPARQL-RW Framework (last modified: 29 December 2011)
• PoolParty Extractor (PPX) (last modified: 6 October 2011)
• PoolParty Semantic Search(PPS) (last modified: 6 October 2011)
• OpenLink Virtuoso (last modified: 7 April 2011)

All relevant tools

This is a list of all tools listed on this wiki, and that are marked as relevant to RDFS.

• AllegroGraph RDF Store (triple store, programming environment, reasoner, development environment, rdfs reasoner). Directly usable from Java, LISP, Python, Prolog, C, Ruby, Perl
• Anzo Suite (development environment, programming environment, visualizer, converter). Directly usable from Javascript, Java, .Net
• Bigdata® (triple store, reasoner, rdfs reasoner, owl reasoner).
• Brahms (programming environment). Directly usable from C++
• ClioPatria (triple store, programming environment, reasoner, rule reasoner). Directly usable from Prolog, C
• Conceptual Resource Search Engine (Corese) (programming environment, reasoner, rule reasoner, rdfs reasoner). Directly usable from Java
• DOME (development environment).
• dotNetRDF (api, programming environment). Directly usable from .Net, C-sharp
• /facet (special browser, rdf or owl browser). Directly usable from Prolog
• GeoSPARQL (programming environment). Directly usable from Java
• Semantics.Server (reasoner, triple store, owl reasoner, rdfs reasoner).
• Jena, a Java RDF API and toolkit (triple store, programming environment, reasoner, rule reasoner, owl reasoner, rdfs reasoner). Directly usable from Java
• NeOn Toolkit (development environment, editor).
• Neologism (development environment, editor, visualizer). Directly usable from PHP
• OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS) (development environment).
• RDFS and OWL 2 RL generator service (reasoner, programming environment, converter, owl reasoner, rdfs reasoner). Directly usable from Python
• OntoBroker (reasoner, development environment, owl reasoner, rdfs reasoner, rule reasoner).
• OntoStudio (development environment, editor).
• Oracle Spatial 11g (triple store, reasoner, owl reasoner). Directly usable from Java
• Oroboro (programming environment, converter, reasoner, owl reasoner, command line tool). Directly usable from Java
• OWLIM (triple store, reasoner, sparql endpoint, rdfs reasoner, owl reasoner). Directly usable from Java, C
• Parliament (triple store, reasoner, owl reasoner, rdfs reasoner, rule reasoner). Directly usable from Java, C
• Pellet (reasoner, owl reasoner). Directly usable from Java
• PoolParty Extractor (PPX) (converter, rdf generator, extractor, tagging, api). Directly usable from Java
• PoolParty Semantic Search(PPS) (semantic search server, programming environment, api). Directly usable from Java
• … further results