What Is This?

This is an HTML+RDFa representation of metadata describing this Web-addressable resource.

Why Is This Important?

The property (attributes and values pairs) links on this page unveil a different kind of link, one which enables the following on HTTP networks such as the Web:

Unambiguous identity for entities (aka. strong identifiers)
Implicit binding of an entity and its metadata via strong identifiers
Multiple metadata representations that enable a variety of presentations
High precision Search and Find queries that simply use the metadata documents (by referencing entity URIs) as the query's Data Source Name

How Do I Discover Alternative Metadata Representations?

This document exposes metadata in the following formats: (X)HTML+RDFa, Turtle, N3, RDF/JSON, or RDF/XML. In the most basic form, you can simply view the (X)HTML source markup of this page, and go directly to the <head/> section which contains a <link/> tag with relationship and type properties for each format.

In addition, you can also explicitly request a desired metadata representation for a given resource via HTTP GET requests that use the entity's strong identifier as the call target.

How Can I Expose My Web Resources In This Manner?

Simply include the following in the <head/> section of your (static or dynamically generated) (X)HTML page:

<link rel="alternate" title="My Data in RDF Linked Data form"
type="application/rdf+xml"
href="http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/<this-page-URL>/>"

How Is This Related To The Linked Data Meme?

As stated above, the links in this page expose strong identifiers for its primary topic, secondary topics, attributes, and some values. These links, via implicit association, act as conduits to their metadata-bearing documents, in a variety formats.

Attribute	Value
Described Using Terms From	http://www.openlinksw.com/schemas/oplweb# http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
OpenLink:DbmsFamilyName	All Supported Databases
OpenLink:DbmsFamilyVendor	OpenLinkData:vendor/OpenLinkSoftware#this
OpenLink:WikipediaPage	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database
OpenLink:hasDatabaseVersions	OpenLinkData:dbms_engine/opendata#this OpenLinkData:dbms_engine/alldb#this
OpenLink:hasProductCategory	OplProductCategory:utilities#this
OpenLink:hasProductFamily	OplProductFamily:development#this
OpenLink:hasProductFormat	OplProductFormat:standard#this
OpenLink:hasProducts	OplProduct:util-dataexplorer-st#this
type	OpenLink:DbmsFamily
label	All Supported Databases
sameAs	dbpedia:Database
homepage	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database

What Is This?

Why Is This Important?

How Do I Discover Alternative Metadata Representations?

How Can I Expose My Web Resources In This Manner?

How Is This Related To The Linked Data Meme?

About: All Supported Databases