Semantic Web Middleware
XPointer, HTTP, RDF, OWL, Accept-Range, Range, xmlns(), xpointer(), element(), XPath, DAWG
Semantic Web resources, as knowledge representation formalisms living in a distributed hypermedia system, require different addressing and processing models and capacities than the typical kinds of resources in the World Wide Web. We describe an approach to building a Semantic Web resource protocol -- a scalable, extensible logical addressing scheme and transport protocol -- by using and extending existing specifications and technologies. We introduce XPointer and some infrequently used, but useful features of HTTP/1.1, in order to support addressing and server side processing of resource and subresource operations. We consider applications of the XPointer Framework for use in the Semantic Web, particularly for RDF and OWL resources and subresources.
In Proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference 2004 (ISWC2004), 7-11 November 2004, Hiroshima, Japan.
(Looking for the RDF version of this metadata? It's available in a separate resource: iswc.rdf -- sorry, but pseudo-embedding RDF in HTML comments is lame. That ISCW annotation organizers don't understand or don't care about this issue is mind-boggling: nagging people to do the wrong thing is never acceptable.)