12.1.8. RDF Schema (RDFS)

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RDF Schema (RDFS) is an extension of RDF.

Classes for RDF Schema and applications

RDF describes resources by classes, attributes, and values.

In addition, RDF needs a way to define application-specific classes and properties. Application-specific classes and properties must be defined using an extension to RDF.

RDF Schema is such an extension.

RDF Schema (RDFS)

Instead of providing actual application-specific classes and properties, RDF Schema provides a framework for describing application-specific classes and properties.

Classes in RDF Schema are very similar to classes in object-oriented programming languages. This allows resources to be defined as instances of the class and subclasses of the class.

RDFS instance

The following example demonstrates some aspects of RDFS’s capabilities:

             

In the above example, the resource “horse” is a subclass of the class “animal”.

An example of shorthand

Since a RDFS class is a RDF resource, we can abbreviate the above example by using rdfs:Class instead of rdf:Description and removing the rdf:type information:

          

okay!

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