Why RDF is useful for geospatial applications

  • Dan Brickley says:
"The RDF data model [is] a handy mechanism for mixing independently created data vocabularies... Unlike vanilla XML, RDF vocabularies can be freely mixed together in data without prior agreement. So you often see ad-hoc combinations of Dublin Core, RSS1, MusicBrainz, RDF-calendar, FOAF, Wordnet, thesaurus, Geo-info etc etc..."
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