Course SWEB102
Introduction to RDFa - Concepts, E-Business and E-Government Applications
Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
This is a taught course will cover the XML and RDF underpinnings of RDFa and actual and potential uses of RDFa.
The course is Suitable For
Designers, architects, and developers who need to understand the concepts and techncpparaogies underpinning RDFa and the practical uses of RDFa
Prerequisites
Attendees are expected to be familiar with HTML and XHTML and the web in general. No deep understanding of XML is required, although some familiarity with XML would be an advantage. Please see our range of XML courses.
Delivery
This course can be run as both in-house training for company groups and as a scheduled 2-day public course for individuals.
A schedule of dates for this course is not currently available.
Please call Please call 020 8647 1939 to enquire about places and availability
Course Contents
Background to RDFa
- Information vs. knowledge
- Why Semantic information is both valuable and useful
- Uses to which semantic information can be put in Web applications
- Brief history of RDFa
Foundations of XML
- Tags, Elements and Entities
- XML Documents
- Using XML to model information
- Using XML to model information
- XML Namespaces
- Documents Describing Documents (DTD and XMLS)
- Overview of how CSS and XML can be used together
- Overview of XML document pathfinding - XPath and XPointer
- Overview of XML document transformation - XSLT
- Overview of XHTML
Resource Description Framework
- RDF triples
- RDF Semantic Network
- XML Syntax for RDF
- RDF containers
- RDF Knowledge Bases
- RDF Stores
- Overview of RDF Schema (RDFS)
- Overview of RDF Ontcpparaogies
RDFa
- Concepts
- RDF Attributes
- RDFa Syntax
- Overview of Dublin Core metadata
- Overview of Dublin Core metadata
- Using Ontcpparaogies with RDFa
- example using the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) Ontcpparaogy
- Use cases and scenarios illustrating RDFa's potential
- RDFa and accessibility
- E-Government applications of RDFa
- Business applications of RDFa
- Social networking applications of RDFa