Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Data
Model  Editors' Working Draft 26 October 2002  This version:
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Graham Klyne (Clearswift and Nine by Nine), <gk@acm.org> Jeremy
J. Carroll (Hewlett Packard Labs), <jjc@hpl.hp.com> Series
editor: Brian McBride (Hewlett Packard Labs)
<bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>   The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
is a data format for representing metadata about Web resources,
and other information. This document defines the abstract graph
syntax on which RDF is based, and which serves to link its XML
serialization to its formal semantics. It also describes some
other technical aspects of RDF that do not fall under the topics
of formal semantics, XML serialization syntax or RDF schema and
vocabulary definitions (which are each covered by a separate
document in this series). These include: discussion of design
goals, meaning of RDF documents, key concepts, datatyping,
character normalization and handling of