Two new RDF specifications

If you are a regular reader of this weblog you know I've been a big fan of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for the last few years. One of my interests on RDF is its potential use on RESTful services. Unfortunately, from a practical standpoint, RDF hasn't caught up to alternative standards like the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP).  However the W3C folks keep doing a phenomenal job evolving RDF.

Yesterday, the W3C consortium published two new specs that truly highlight the flexibility of RDF: the HTTP vocabulary in RDF specification provides a way of representing the HTTP protocol elements using RDF. I find this really useful on scenarios like protocol analysis on which you need to query different HTTP elements such as headers or parameters. Additionally, W3C has also published the Representing Content in RDF specification which provides an RDF representation for the most common Web content type such as text or xml.