Editing Resource Description Framework (section)

===Vocabulary===
The vocabulary defined by the RDF specification is as follows:<ref name="rdfschema">{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/|title=RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema|publisher=[[W3C]]|date=2004-02-10|access-date=2011-01-05}}</ref> 

====Classes====

===== rdf =====
; {{code|rdf:XMLLiteral}} : the class of XML literal values
; {{code|rdf:Property}} : the class of properties
; {{code|rdf:Statement}} : the class of RDF statements
; {{code|rdf:Alt}}, {{code|rdf:Bag}}, {{code|rdf:Seq}} : containers of alternatives, unordered containers, and ordered containers (<code>rdfs:Container</code> is a super-class of the three)
; {{code|rdf:List}} : the class of RDF Lists
; {{code|rdf:nil}} : an instance of <code>rdf:List</code> representing the empty list

===== rdfs =====

; {{code|rdfs:Resource}} : the class resource, everything
; {{code|rdfs:Literal}} : the class of literal values, e.g. [[string literal|string]]s and [[integer]]s
; {{code|rdfs:Class}} : the class of classes
; {{code|rdfs:Datatype}} : the class of RDF datatypes
; {{code|rdfs:Container}} : the class of RDF containers
; {{code|rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty}} : the class of container membership properties, <code>rdf:_1</code>, <code>rdf:_2</code>, ..., all of which are sub-properties of <code>rdfs:member</code>

====Properties====

=====rdf=====

; {{code|rdf:type}} : an instance of <code>rdf:Property</code> used to state that a resource is an instance of a class
; {{code|rdf:first}} : the first item in the subject RDF list
; {{code|rdf:rest}} : the rest of the subject RDF list after <code>rdf:first</code>
; {{code|rdf:value}} : idiomatic property used for structured values
; {{code|rdf:subject}} : the subject of the RDF statement
; {{code|rdf:predicate}} : the predicate of the RDF statement
; {{code|rdf:object}} : the object of the RDF statement

<code>rdf:Statement</code>, <code>rdf:subject</code>, <code>rdf:predicate</code>, <code>rdf:object</code> are used for [[reification (knowledge representation)|reification]] (see [[#Statement reification and context|below]]).

=====rdfs=====

; {{code|rdfs:subClassOf}} : the subject is a subclass of a class
; {{code|rdfs:subPropertyOf}} : the subject is a subproperty of a property
; {{code|rdfs:domain}} : a domain of the subject property
; {{code|rdfs:range}} : a range of the subject property
; {{code|rdfs:label}} : a human-readable name for the subject
; {{code|rdfs:comment}} : a description of the subject resource
; {{code|rdfs:member}} : a member of the subject resource
; {{code|rdfs:seeAlso}} : further information about the subject resource
; {{code|rdfs:isDefinedBy}} : the definition of the subject resource

This vocabulary is used as a foundation for [[RDF Schema]], where it is extended.