FlowRDF Proposal

Summary

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) enables encoding, exchange and reuse of structured metadata. It is an application of XML that imposes needed structural constraints to provide unambiguous methods of expressing semantics. Moreover, it provides means for publishing both human-readable and machine-processable vocabularies designed to encourage the reuse and extension of metadata among disparate information communities. Within this document we demonstrate how to reuse standardized RDF metadata elements (defined by resource description communities, e.g., the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative), how to create and reference flow cytometry specific metadata elements, and how to use biological ontologies to annotate flow cytometry data.

This document does not create a new standard, it only demonstrates how to utilize the Resource Description Framework standard for annotation of flow cytometry data.

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FlowRDF (last edited 2007-01-11 17:55:22 by Spidlen)