Date: Jan. 5, 2001
Link: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rdf/?dwzone=xml
Source Author or Organization: Uche Ogbuji, Fourthought, Inc., developerWorks, IBM

This is an introductory tutorial on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a standard for encoding and exchanging Web metadata that uses XML syntax.

The author describes the basic components and syntax used in RDF models, statements, and schema, and also discusses RDF's heavy reliance on XML Namespaces.