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Web science. WOT Schema. See also: RDFS definitions RDF documents can make any number of statements. Without some kind of signature or other similar verification mechanism, there is no way to understand who made these statements. One way to document who made a set of statements is via the use of Digital Signatures: signing a document using Public Key Cryptography. The WOT, or Web Of Trust, schema is designed to facilitate the use of Public Key Cryptography tools such as PGP or GPG to sign RDF documents and document these signatures. An example document utilizing all the classes and properties of the revised wot vocabulary. Classes and Properties (full detail) Class: wot:EncryptedDocument Encrypted Document - An encrypted document intended for a set of recipients. [back to top] Class: wot:Endorsement Endorsement - An endorsement resource containing a detached ascii signature. Class: wot:PubKey Public Key - A class used to represent a PGP/GPG public key for a user (an agent, person, group or organization).

Trust Ontology. Main Page - TrustLet. Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks - ReadWriteWe.