Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation radio direction finder
- abbreviation rapid deployment force
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- noun Resource Description Framework, used for
conceptual modelling of information on theWeb . - noun Initialism of Radio Direction Finding.
- noun reality distortion field, used for describing how exposure to a
charismatic person can change people's behavior. - noun Random Dopant Fluctuation, used in
semiconductor process development. RDF is a significant cause of MOS Threshold Voltage variation in nanometer scale devices.
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Examples
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Sam Johnston: pointing to an OWL file generated by Protegé in RDF/XML as an argument that RDF * as a whole* is ugly is a bit like pointing to a minified JavaScript library in order to say that JavaScript as a whole is ugly.
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RDF is really the intuition that foreign keys need to be URIs, not integers.
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Almost everyone involved in RDF these days sees RDF/XML as just a transmission format – nobody is supposed to read that by hand.
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RDF is designed to be manipulated as data, XML is about annotating text.
Archive 2008-06-01 Mia 2008
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RDF is designed to be manipulated as data, XML is about annotating text.
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Google’s advance in direction of implementing RDF is much more important.
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I know The Steve’s RDF is pretty strong, but I don’t think it can bend time. —
Steve Jobs, Again the Master Marketer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But the fact that RDF technologies through which trust can be expressed are inherently compatible with grassroots things like FOAF and RSS (RSS 1.0 is done in RDF) suggests any significant barriers to trust-enhanced advertising won’t be technical.
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Following on from work by Norm Walsh, they also have some notes on modelling vCards in RDF.
Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh) | FactoryCity 2008
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As these node-edge-node triple statements get aggregated, a network structure emerges, known as the RDF graph.
Daily Digest | Making Health Care Myths with Data Visualization 2009
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