Date: February 18 2022
Summary: Very brief history of the RDF
Keywords: #rdf #history #w3c #metadata #archive
W3C, "RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax." https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/ (accessed Feb. 18, 2022).
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of specifications created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and formally adopted by W3C in 1999. The RDF specification was originally created by the as a data model for managing and storing metadata found on the internet. In recent years, it has become a general framework for web resource tooling and provides an abstract model that can be used in multiple serialization formats.
Zelko, Jacob. History of the RDF. https://jacobzelko.com/02182022164256-rdf-history. February 18 2022.