RDF Schema

RDF Schema (RDFS) is an extension of the RDF.

RDF Schema classes and applications

RDF to describe resources through classes, attributes and values.

In addition, RDF is also a need for a specialized application method defined classes and properties. Application-specific classes and properties must be used to define extensions to RDF.

RDF Schema is such an extension.

RDF Schema (RDFS)

RDF Schema does not provide a practical application-specific classes and attributes, but provides the framework described in the application-specific classes and attributes.

RDF Schema Classes and object-oriented programming language classes are very similar. This allows resources to be used as a subclass instance and class to be defined.

RDFS examples

The following example demonstrates the ability of certain aspects of RDFS:

In the above example, the resource "horse" is the class "animal" subclasses.

Shorthand examples

Since a class is a RDFS RDF resources, we can use rdfs: Class substituted rdf: Description, and remove rdf: type information to look at the example above shorthand:

That's it!