rdfDescription

rdfDescription refers to the rdf:Description element in RDF/XML syntax, used to describe a resource or blank node by listing its properties as nested elements. It is part of the RDF/XML serialization defined by the RDF namespace and provides a convenient container for a set of statements about a subject.

In practice, a Description element identifies the subject of the statements with an attribute such as rdf:about for a URI or rdf:nodeID for a blank node. Inside the element, each child element represents an RDF property, with the tag name corresponding to the property and the content or nested elements providing the object. Objects can be literals, resources identified elsewhere, or blank nodes described by their own nested descriptions.

Rdf:Description is commonly used within an RDF/XML document, which starts with an rdf:RDF root element. It remains one of several ways to express RDF data in XML. However, RDF/XML has largely given way in many contexts to more compact serializations such as Turtle, N-Triples, or JSON-LD, which do not rely on rdf:Description. Despite this, rdf:Description remains a standard construct for embedding RDF triples in XML and for representing graphs when RDF/XML is the chosen format.

Example:

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"

xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/resource1">

<dc:title>Example Resource</dc:title>

<dc:creator>Alice</dc:creator>

</rdf:Description>

</rdf:RDF>