Two new RDF specifications
If you are a regular reader of this weblog you know I've
been a big fan of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for the last few
years. One of my interests on RDF is its potential use on RESTful services. Unfortunately,
from a practical standpoint, RDF hasn't caught up to alternative standards like
the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP). However the W3C folks keep doing a phenomenal
job evolving RDF.
Yesterday, the W3C consortium published two new specs
that truly highlight the flexibility of RDF: the HTTP vocabulary in RDF
specification provides a way of representing the HTTP protocol elements using
RDF. I find this really useful on scenarios like protocol analysis on which you
need to query different HTTP elements such as headers or parameters. Additionally,
W3C has also published the Representing
Content in RDF specification which provides an RDF representation for the
most common Web content type such as text or xml.