Synthetic Biology:Semantic web ontology/RDF Schema


 * ‘semantically extends’ RDF to enable us to talk about classes of resources, and the properties that will be used with them
 * provides the means to describe application specific RDF vocabularies
 * provides schema information as additional descriptions of resources, but does not prescribe how these descriptions should be used by an application
 * describes classes (corresponds to the generic concept of a Type or Category) and properties

RDF schemas differ somewhat from XML schemas (such as DTDs or W3C XML Schemas) in that they do not define a permissible syntax but instead classes, properties, and their interrelation: they operate directly at the data model level, rather than the syntax level

Resources

 * 1) RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema - W3C Recommendation
 * 2) RDF Schema Vocabulary Reference