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'RDFS' or 'RDF Schema' is an extensible knowledge representation language, providing basic elements for the description of ontologies, otherwise called RDF vocabularies, intended to structure RDF resources. The first version was published by W3C in April 1998, and the final W3C recommendation was released in February 2004. Main RDFS components are included in the more expressive language OWL.
★ 'rdfs:Class' allows to declare a resource as a class for other resources.
Typical example of an rdfs:Class is foaf:Person in the FOAF vocabulary. An instance of foaf:Person is a resource linked to the class using an rdf:type predicate, such as in the following formal expression of the natural language sentence : 'John is a Person'.
''ex:John rdf:type foaf:Person''
The definition of rdfs:Class is recursive : rdfs:Class is the rdfs:Class of any rdfs:Class.
★ 'rdfs:subClassOf' allows to declare hierarchies of classes.
For example, the following declares that 'Every Person is an Agent':
''foaf:Person rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Agent''
Hierarchies of classes support inheritance of a property domain and range (see definitions in next section) from a class to its subclasses.
★ 'rdfs:domain' of an rdf:property declares the class of the subject in a triple using this property as predicate.
★ 'rdfs:range' of an rdf:property declares the class or datatype of the object in a triple using this property as predicate.
For example the following declarations are used to express that the property ex:employer is linking a subject which is a foaf:Person, to an object which is a foaf:Organization
''ex:employer rdfs:domain foaf:Person''
''ex:employer rdfs:range foaf:Organization''
Given the previous declarations, in the following triple, ex:John is necessarily a foaf:Person, and ex:CompanyX is necessarily a foaf:Organization
''ex:John ex:employer ex:CompanyX''
★ Resource Description Framework (RDF)
★ Web Ontology Language (OWL)
★ W3C RDFS Specification
| Contents |
| Main RDFS constructs |
| Classes and subclasses |
| Property domain and range |
| See also |
| External links |
Main RDFS constructs
Classes and subclasses
★ 'rdfs:Class' allows to declare a resource as a class for other resources.
Typical example of an rdfs:Class is foaf:Person in the FOAF vocabulary. An instance of foaf:Person is a resource linked to the class using an rdf:type predicate, such as in the following formal expression of the natural language sentence : 'John is a Person'.
''ex:John rdf:type foaf:Person''
The definition of rdfs:Class is recursive : rdfs:Class is the rdfs:Class of any rdfs:Class.
★ 'rdfs:subClassOf' allows to declare hierarchies of classes.
For example, the following declares that 'Every Person is an Agent':
''foaf:Person rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Agent''
Hierarchies of classes support inheritance of a property domain and range (see definitions in next section) from a class to its subclasses.
Property domain and range
★ 'rdfs:domain' of an rdf:property declares the class of the subject in a triple using this property as predicate.
★ 'rdfs:range' of an rdf:property declares the class or datatype of the object in a triple using this property as predicate.
For example the following declarations are used to express that the property ex:employer is linking a subject which is a foaf:Person, to an object which is a foaf:Organization
''ex:employer rdfs:domain foaf:Person''
''ex:employer rdfs:range foaf:Organization''
Given the previous declarations, in the following triple, ex:John is necessarily a foaf:Person, and ex:CompanyX is necessarily a foaf:Organization
''ex:John ex:employer ex:CompanyX''
See also
★ Resource Description Framework (RDF)
★ Web Ontology Language (OWL)
External links
★ W3C RDFS Specification
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