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AgMES RDF Schema

What is RDF?

Resource Description Framework or RDF is a framework for metadata. It provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. It contains three basic elements:

  • Resources, which is everything described in RDF "expressions";
  • Properties, which are specific aspects, characteristics, attributes, or relations used to describe a resource; and
  • Statements, which describe a specific resource together with a named property, plus the value of that property.

The RDF schema for newly created elements in AgMES is available from: http://www.purl.org/agmes/1.1/. [To see or save the file correctly, right-click and choose "Save Target as .....", download to your PC and open.]
You can also download the file from: here

When creating a reference to AgMES namespace, the correct URI to use is: http://www.purl.org/agmes/1.1/.

For more information, see the W3C pages on RDF

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