resource description framework

The Resource Description Framework, or RDF, is a technology that we're using in Mozilla to integrate and aggregate Internet resources.

Original Documentation. The original documentation for RDF in the pre-Seamonkey browser. Most of it still applies, even if it's somewhat dated.

In Fifty Words Or Less. A nickel description of what RDF is, and how it fits in to the Mozilla world. Comes complete with examples!

Back-End Architecture. A grandiose document that describes how the RDF back-end works in Mozilla. Eventually, this will have sample code that illustrates how to use the back-end directly as a client, as well as instructions and samples that illustrate how to write your own pluggable RDF data source.

How It Works With NGLayout. This document describes how RDF/XML gets pumped through NGLayout to create a bona fide content model that is compatible with the Level 0 DOM.

RDF Model and Syntax Specification. This is the "official" W3C working draft for the RDF syntax standard. Know it. Love it.

RDF Schema Specification. Another official W3C working draft, this one for RDF's basic schema.

Community. netscape.public.mozilla.rdf is the Mozilla RDF newsgroup, and mozilla-rdf@mozilla.org is an e-mail mirror.