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-<h4>Linked Open Data</h4>
+<h4>Linked Open Data (LOD)</h4>
Refers to Linked Data published on the public Web. Publishing Linked Open Data enables distributed SPAQL queries of the data sets and a “browsing” or “discovery” approach to finding information, as compared to a search strategy.
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<h4>Management, Resources and Results Structure</h4>
Government of Canada policy linking the management of government resources and program results to their organizational structures. It provides a representation of how a department is managed through a) strategic outcomes; b) program activity architecture (PAA); and c) governance structure.
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The basic unit of HTTP communication, consisting of a structured sequence of octets matching the syntax defined as an <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-03.html#httpmessage" target="blank">HTTP Message</a> and transmitted via the connection.
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<h4>Metadata</h4>
Information used to administer, describe, preserve, present, use or link other information held in resources, especially knowledge resources, be they physical or virtual.
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<h4>N3</h4>
-Abbreviation for Notation3 (N3), a readable RDF syntax used for expressing assertion and logic. N3 is a superset of RDF, extending the RDF model by adding formulae (literals which are graphs themselves), variables, logical implication, and functional predicates. See also <a href="#turtle">Turtle</a>.
+Abbreviation for Notation3 (N3), a readable RDF syntax used for expressing assertion and logic. N3 [[N3]] is a superset of RDF, extending the RDF model by adding formulae (literals which are graphs themselves), variables, logical implication, and functional predicates. See also <a href="#turtle">Turtle</a>.
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<h4 >Ontology</h4>
-A formal representation of relationships between items in a directed graph structure. See <a href="#taxonomy">taxonomy</a>.
+A formal representation of relationships between items or concepts in a directed graph structure. See also <a href="#taxonomy">taxonomy</a>.
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<h4>Open Government Data</h4>
-Open government data broadly refers to content that is published on the public Web in a variety of non-proprietary formats including as XML, CSV and PDF.
+Open government data broadly refers to content that is published on the public Web by government authorities at national, regional or local levels, in a variety of non-proprietary formats including as XML, CSV, SHP and PDF.
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<h4>Open World</h4>
- The presumption that what is not known to be true may yet be true if additional information is later obtained. The assumption underlying RDF and OWL Full.
+ The presumption that what is not known to be true may yet be true if additional information is later obtained. It is the assumption underlying RDF and OWL Full, and often opposed to <a href="#closed-world">"Closed World"</a>
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-<h4>RDFa</h4>
-A system for embedding RDF data in a web page.
+<h4>Resource Description Framework in Attributes (RDFa)</h4>
+RDFa [[!RDFa-PRIMER]] is a way that allows embedding rich structured data like RDF directly in a web page.
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<h4>RDF-JSON</h4>
-A concrete syntax in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) ([RFC4627]) for RDF as defined in the RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax ([RDF-CONCEPTS]) W3C Recommendation. An RDF-JSON document serializes such a set of RDF triples as a series of nested data structures. <a href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-json/index.html"> RDF 1.1 JSON Serialization W3C Recommendation</a>
+A concrete syntax in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) ([[RFC4627]]) for RDF as defined in the RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax ([[!RDF-CONCEPTS]]) W3C Recommendation. An RDF-JSON document serializes such a set of RDF triples as a series of nested data structures. <a href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-json/index.html"> RDF 1.1 JSON Serialization W3C Recommendation</a>
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<h4>RDFS</h4>
-RDFS is the schema language for RDF; it describes constructs for types of objects (Classes), relating types to one another (subClasses), properties that describe objects (Properties), and relationships between them (subProperty). <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/"> RDF Schema W3C Recommendation</a>
+RDFS [[!RDFS]] is the schema language for RDF; it describes constructs for types of objects (Classes), relating types to one another (subClasses), properties that describe objects (Properties), and relationships between them (subProperty).
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<h4>Semantic Web Standards</h4>
- Standards of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) relating to the Semantic Web, including RDF, RDFa, SKOS and OWL.
+ Standards of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) relating to the Semantic Web, including RDF[[!RDF]], RDFa[[!RDFa]], SKOS[[!SKOS]] and OWL[[!OWL]].
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-<h4>Sesame</h4> An Open Source Software implementation of a Semantic Web development framework. Supports the storage, retrieval and analysis of RDF information. <a href="http://www.openrdf.org">See</a>
+<h4>Sesame</h4> An Open Source Software implementation of a Semantic Web development framework. It supports the storage, retrieval and analysis of RDF information, available at <a href="http://www.openrdf.org">http://www.openrdf.org</a>
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<h4>Simple Knowledge Organisation System</h4>
-A vocabulary description language for RDF designed for representing traditional knowledge organization systems such as enterprise taxonomies in RDF. A W3C standard.
+Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) [[!SKOS]] is a vocabulary description language for RDF designed for representing traditional knowledge organization systems such as enterprise taxonomies in RDF.
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<h4>SPARQL</h4>
-Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) defines a standard query language and data access protocol for use with the RDF. Just as SQL is used to query relational data, SPARQL is used to query an RDF database.
+Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) defines a standard query language and data access protocol for use with the RDF [[!SPARQL]]. Just as SQL is used to query relational data, SPARQL is used to query an RDF database. SPARQL 1.1 [[!SPARQL-1.1]] specification allows more set of operations and queries on a RDF graph content on the Web or in a RDF store.
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<h4>SPARQL client</h4>
-An application that can construct and issue a SPARQL query. An example of a SPARQL client is <a href="http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/index.html">ARQ</a>, part of the Apache Jena Project. ARQ is a query engine for Jena that supports the SPARQL RDF Query Language.
+A SPARQL client is an application that can construct and issue a SPARQL query. An example of a SPARQL client is <a href="http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/index.html">ARQ</a>, part of the Apache Jena Project. ARQ is a query engine for Jena that supports the SPARQL RDF Query Language.
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<h4>SPARQL endpoint</h4>
-An application that can answer a SPARQL query, including one where the native encoding of information is not in RDF.
+SPARQL endpoint refers to an application that can answer a SPARQL query, including one where the native encoding of information is not in RDF. It is a best practice for datasets providers to give the URL of their SPARQL endpoint to get access to their data both programmatically or through the web interface. A list of some endpoints status is available at <a href="http://labs.mondeca.com/sparqlEndpointsStatus/">http://labs.mondeca.com/sparqlEndpointsStatus/</a>
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<h4>Turtle</h4>
-An RDF serialization format designed to be easier to read than others such as RDF/XML. Turtle allows an RDF graph to be written in a compact and natural text form, with abbreviations for common usage patterns and datatypes. Turtle provides levels of compatibility with the existing N-Triples format as well as, the triple pattern syntax of the SPARQL W3C Recommendation. See W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/">Terse RDF Triple Language</a> documentation.
+An RDF serialization format designed to be easier to read than others such as RDF/XML. Turtle allows an RDF graph to be written in a compact and natural text form, with abbreviations for common usage patterns and datatypes. Turtle [[!TURTLE-TR]] provides levels of compatibility with the existing N-Triples format as well as, the triple pattern syntax of the SPARQL W3C Recommendation.
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<h4>Web Ontology Language (OWL)</h4>
- A family of knowledge representation and vocabulary description languages for authoring ontologies, based on RDF and standardized by the W3C. Standardized variants include OWL Full, OWL DL (for "description logic") and OWL Lite.
+ A family of knowledge representation and vocabulary description languages for authoring ontologies, based on RDF and standardized by the W3C [[!OWL2]]. Standardized variants include OWL Full, OWL DL (for "description logic") and OWL Lite.
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-<h4>eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language</h4>
- A family of versions of HTML based on XML and standardized by the W3C.
+<h4>eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)</h4>
+ A family of versions of HTML based on XML and standardized by the W3C [[!XHTML1]].
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-<h4>eXtensible Markup Language (XHTML)</h4>
- A specification for creating structured textual computer documents. Many thousands of XML formats exist, including XHTML. A family of standards from the W3C.
+<h4>eXtensible Markup Language (XML)</h4>
+ XML[[!XML]] is a specification for creating structured textual computer documents, subset of SGML enabling such documents to be served, received and process on the Web in the same way as HTML documents . There are many thousands of XML formats, including XHTML. It is part of a family of standards from the W3C.
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Limitations on the content of an XML document that defines what structural elements are allowed.
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<h4>eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)</h4>
Declarative programs to transform one XML document into another XML document.