At my place of work, I recently joined a grassroots interest group designed to self-education on the topic of RDF or Resource Description Framework. I know zero about this topic, and understand it to be a framework for presenting relational data in ways that can be repurposed readily for web formatting. I could be very wrong about this.
I was approached by one of our group's coordinators after our last meeting, and he encouraged (invited) me to consider giving a presentation to the group. I was stunned. I am not an expert, but having just come off a less on in my online learning course from ALA Classes, in which we divided and conquered on learning new collaborative instructional techniques, I decided today that I could and would do this. Rudimentary. Theoretical knowledge with no practical experience to support the knowledge. But, this is how Bloom's Taxonomy works, so here we go, at the lowest level of learning, I will begin.
From the Springer Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2009), I learned that RDF is, "RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a language for making statements about resources, i.e., for representing metadata. Here, the term resource is intentionally used very broadly in the sense of any entity that can be uniquely identified by a URI (Universal Resource Identifier). This includes traditional web resources (such as web pages or images), as well as physical objects (such as devices) and humans about which the statements are made." I think that may be what I took away from the first discussion group sessions I attended.
I began my search in the library discovery interface using the keywords "introduction to RDF". From the results list, I used the topic filter to isolate records with the topic "resource description framework." I created a RefWorks folder and downloaded some articles. I'll continue researching soon.
