Last update: 
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 12:26
Abstract: 
Abstract Resource Description Vocabulary (aardv) is the least common denominator for the discovery vocabularies XRD, POWDER, and voiD.

Note that aardv is used in aadrv.arc, the Abstract Resource Description Converter and this is part of ULDis, the Universal Linked DIScovery client.

aardv at a glance

aardv classes and properties

RDVocabulary

Label: 
resource description vocabulary
Comment: 
abstract top level class for any kind of resource description vocabulary

XRDVocabulary

Label: 
XRD vocabulary
Comment: 
The XRD terms
Superclass: 
RDVocabulary

As of http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/32686/xrd-1.0-wd01.html

POWDERVocabulary

Label: 
POWDER vocabulary
Comment: 
POWDER terms
Superclass: 
RDVocabulary

As of http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-dr/

VoiDVocabulary

Label: 
voiD vocabulary
Comment: 
voiD terms
Superclass: 
RDVocabulary

As of http://rdfs.org/ns/void

DiscoveryMethod

Label: 
concept of a discovery method
Comment: 
concept of a discovery method

abstract base class for discovery methods

HTTPLinkHeaderMethod

Label: 
HTTP Link: header
Comment: 
HTTP Link: header discovery method
Superclass: 
DiscoveryMethod

as of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-03#section-4.3

LinkElementMethod

Label: 
Link element
Comment: 
Link element discovery method
Superclass: 
DiscoveryMethod

Note: currently for HTML and Atom defined (as of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-03#section-4.2)

WellKnownLocationMethod

Label: 
well-known location
Comment: 
well-known location discovery method
Superclass: 
DiscoveryMethod

in the sense of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-03#section-4.4 (UPDATE ME :)

LRDDProcessor

Label: 
LRDD processor
Comment: 
a LRDD compliant implementation of a discovery processor

as of Link-based Resource Descriptor Discovery IETF WD http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-03

method

Label: 
discovery method
Range: 
DiscoveryMethod
Comment: 
relates a

the domain is currently http://www.w3.org/2006/gen/ont#InformationResource