An exploratory study of RDF: A data model for cloud computing

Abstract

Semantic web is an extension of the web which focuses on the meaning of data content rather than the structure of the data content. It promotes many standards by the world wide web consortium (W3C). RDF is a data interchange standard widely used by semantic web community. Cloud computing is a computing paradigm which involves outsourcing of computing resources with the capabilities of resource scalability, on demand provisioning with little or no up-front IT infrastructure investment costs. Resource Description framework is a semantic data model for cloud computing. This paper analyze RDF in terms of its present status, comparison between RDF and traditional data models, its usage in semantic web data management, overview of semantic web rule languages and finally its limitations in representing concepts are examined.