--- a/rdf-primer/index.html Mon Feb 03 14:47:24 2014 +0100
+++ b/rdf-primer/index.html Mon Feb 03 15:43:20 2014 +0100
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
<li>Building distributed social networks by interlinking RDF
descriptions of people
across multiple Web sites.</li>
- <li>Providing a standard-compliant way for exchanging data
+ <li>Providing a standards-compliant way for exchanging data
between databases.</li>
<li>Interlinking various datasets within an organisation,
enabling cross-dataset queries to
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@
<strong>triples</strong>.</p>
-->
- <p>An RDF statement represents a relationship between two resources.
+ <p>An RDF statement expresses a relationship between two resources.
The <strong>subject</strong> and the <strong>object</strong>
represent the two resources being
related; the <strong>predicate</strong> represents the nature of their
@@ -258,8 +258,7 @@
three elements they are called <strong>triples</strong>.
</p>
- <p>Informally speaking, RDF allows us to make
- statements of the form:</p>
+ <p>RDF allows us to make statements of the form:</p>
<pre class="example" id="example-1">
<Bob> <is a> <person>.
@@ -508,9 +507,10 @@
<p>RDF Schema uses the notion of <strong>class</strong> to
specify categories that can be used to classify resources. The
- relation between an instance and its class is modelled through the
- <strong>type</strong> property. For both classes and properties one can create
- subtype hierarchies. Type restrictions on the subjects
+ relation between an instance and its class is stated through the
+ <strong>type</strong> property. One can create create hierarchies
+ of classes and sub-classes and of
+ properties and sub-properties. Type restrictions on the subjects
and objects of particular triples can be defined through
<strong>domain</strong> and <strong>range</strong>
restrictions. An example of a domain restriction was given above: