All, The following was recently published as a work item of the W3C RDFcore working group. It is our hope that when the specification documents are stabilized as W3C recommendations (hopefully, quite soon) we can move this forward promptly for RFC publication. If there's anything here likely to be problematic, we'd appreciate knowing sooner rather than later. #g --

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Title : application/rdf+xml Media Type Registration Author(s) : A. Swartz Filename : draft-swartz-rdfcore-rdfxml-mediatype-00.txt Pages : Date : 05-Apr-02

This document describes a media type (application/rdf+xml) for use with the XML serialization of the Resource Description Framework (RDF). RDF is a language designed to support the Semantic Web, by facilitating resource description and data exchange on the Web. RDF provides common structures that can be used for interoperable data exchange and follows the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) design principles of interoperability, evolution, and decentralization.

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