The foundation semantic web technology is the resource-description framework (RDF). RDF, as its name suggests, is a system to describe resources.

The idea of using semantic technology on the Web is almost as old as the Web itself, but the concept has only in the last several years begun gaining traction.

Indeed, in February 2008, Yahoo announced that its indexing would support the semantic web's RDF format (see below) in web-page metadata and open database sources.

Expectations, whether implicit or explicit, that vast legions will 'do' the Semantic Web and express themselves in RDF are, frankly, lunacy.

Indeed, in February 2008, Yahoo announced that its indexing would support the semantic web's RDF format (see below) in web-page metadata and open database sources.

The Semantic Web will be able to draw such conclusions, thanks to the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which can describe the contents of a collection of text, making it possible for machines ...

The Semantic Web will build on XML's ability to define customized tagging schemes and the resource description framework's (RDF) flexible approach to representing data.

Major Web search engines, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing, are starting to use semantic metadata to prioritize searches and to support W3C standards like RDF.

The "semantic Web" is hugely important to tomorrow's business. Do not underestimate its significance: It truly changes everything. Embrace it, or risk extinction. But what is it? And what does it ...

Business users in sectors ranging from e-commerce to financial services and marketing are reaping benefits from semantic technology -- even if they don't always understand how it works.