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 1 Core DOM.

On Making A Content Model From A Graph. This document describes why it's hard to make a content model from a graph, and suggests some ways to deal with it. It's a plea for help and a call to arms for all you mathematician types out there.

References. Links to other documents about RDF.

Community. netscape.public.mozilla.rdf is the Mozilla RDF newsgroup, and mozilla-rdf@mozilla.org is an e-mail mirror. Another nice mailing list is rdf-dev@mailbase.ac.uk, which has more general (non-Mozilla) RDF traffic.