Fact Sheet: Ressource Description Framework (RDF)

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Reasons from Industry (example):

• Increase consistency, clarity and efficiency of multi-disciplinary model engineering by providing an underlying general-purpose, machine-readable semantic model and language that allows for automated interlinking and integration of different models
• Enable standardized automated processing and linking of knowledge from multiple domains
• Improve efficiency of communication, collaboration, exchange and management of knowledge across domains, business segments and organizations (interoperability)
• Increase efficiency in both systems engineering and software engineering
• Support automation in data/model exchange and processing
• W3C domain-independent standard enabler for logically consistent semantic models

RDF is a standard model for representing information in the Web. It enables modeling of a semantic net

RDF helps to avoid the following issues,

• Slow pocedere , Company specific incompatible semantic models
• Models remain processable only with specific tools despite high standardization efforts while still being restricted to single (sets) of use cases
• High efforts for individual software development regarding model engineering and management
• Industry 4.0 etc. promote semantic models for interoperability, with RDF/OWL as an important building block, thus separated development streams could lead to fundamental inconsistencies and hinder continuous model exchange