RDF & RDFS Glossary
Classes:
- rdf:Alt - a collection where all members are alternatives for each other
- rdf:Bag - an unordered collection, which may contain duplicates
- rdf:List - the class of RDF lists
- rdf:Property - resources that are properties
- rdf:Seq - an ordered collection, which may contain duplicates
- rdf:Statement - used to describe a complete RDF statement
- rdf:XMLLiteral - all valid XML literal values
- rdfs:Class - a type of resource
- rdfs:Container - the set of containers (Bag, Seq, Alt)
- rdfs:DataType - all valid RDF datatypes
- rdfs:Literal - the set of literal values, e.g. string and integers
- rdfs:Resource - all things described by RDF are called resources
Properties:
- rdf:first - the first item in an rdf list
- rdf:list - an empty list
- rdf:object - the object of a statement
- rdf:predicate - the predicate (property) of a statement
- rdf:rest - an rdf list with the first item removed
- rdf:subject - the subject of a statement
- rdf:type - shows that a resource is an instance of a class
- rdf:value - the value of a property
- rdfs:comment - a description of a resource
- rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty - the properties of members of a container
- rdfs:domain - used to restrict the classes that a property can have as its subject
- rdfs:isDefinedBy - used when the definition of a resource is given elsewhere
- rdfs:label - provides a human-readable version of a resource name
- rdfs:member - a member of a container (Bag, Seq or Alt)
- rdfs:range - used to restrict the classes that a property can have as its object
- rdfs:seeAlso - a resource which provides additional information on a subject
- rdfs:subClassOf - the subject is a specialization of the object class
- rdfs:subPropertyOf - the subject is a specialization of the object property
RDF Definition in RDFS (Walton, 2007, p38)