Web Links   RDF Vocabularies
A list of links to common RDF vocabulary homepages, specification and reference documents, including RDFS and OWL.
1 Link RDF Schema
RDF Schema is the W3C standard for describing RDF vocabularies.
2 Link Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Web Ontology Language is a W3C standard RDF vocabulary extension for a knowledge-based rdfdescription logic derived from DAML+OIL.
3 Link The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
The Simple Knowledge Organization System is a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems via the Semantic Web.
4 Link The Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO)
The Citation Typing Ontology, and its use for annotation of reference lists and visualization of citation networks.
5 Link Dublin Core (DC)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative seeks to provide industry standard base vocabulary for describing resources.
6 Link Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) Project develops a commonly-used RDFS/OWL vocabulary/ontology specification for expressing relationships between people.
7 Link vCard RDF Encoding
This is a W3C Note specifying an RDF/XML encoding for vCard profiles, providing a consistent rdfdescription of persons using the existing semantics of the vCard standard.
8 Link RDF Site Summary (RSS)
This is the RSS 1.0 branch that was forked by the RSS-DEV Working Group and includes an RDFS vocabulary specification.
9 Link Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
SIOC Core Ontology Specification - an RDFS/OWL vocabulary/ontology for describing the main concepts and properties for online communities.
10 Link RDF Description of a Project (DOAP) DOAP is an XML/RDF vocabulary for describing software projects.
11 Link Nepomuk Ontologies
Nepomuk, the social semantic desktop project, has a collection of ontologies for a user's personal information, e.g. files, contacts, messages etc.
12 Link RDF Graph Patterns & Templates
This vocabulary defines terms used to describe RDF Graph patterns and templates as used in RDF Query languages (e.g. SPARQL) and elsewhere.
13 Link AKT Ontology
This vocabulary defines terms used to describe RDF Graph patterns and templates as used in RDF Query languages (e.g. SPARQL) and elsewhere.