The semantic web - on the respective roles of XML and RDF. BibTeX Bookmark OpenURL Abstract The next generation of the Web is often characterized as the "Semantic Web": information will no longer only be intended for human readers, but also for processing by machines, enabling intelligent information services, personalized Web-sites, and semantically empowered search-engines.
O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface - O'Reilly Labs. Most publishers are familiar with the ONIX standard for exchanging metadata about books among trading partners. Anyone who's actually spent time working with ONIX knows that its syntax is abstruse at best . While ONIX does use XML, there are more modern, more general, and more immediately comprehensible standards out there, particularly for the basic details like "author," "title," and "edition. " If you love something... set it free.