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Appendix: Getting started with RDF

Since RDF became a W3C recommendation in February 1999, a number of tools have been created by developers working with RDF. This appendix provides a brief and incomplete survey of some of these tools. For a more in-depth treatment, consult the W3C RDF home page. A number of other listings are available, including XML.com, xmlhack and Dave Beckett's RDF Resource Guide.

Community

@@RDF IG. RDF-DEV. Also Mozilla. RDF-Logic. RSS-DEV. dc-architecture. "I just want to use it..."

RDF APIs

As of January 2001, there is no agreed W3C API for dealing with RDF, ie. nothing akin to an 'RDF DOM'. Neither is there a community-based interface such as SAX. Nevertheless there has been a fair amount of implementation experience