ITGumbo: spicing IT up

container - RDF defines three types of containers: Bag, Sequence (Seq) and Alternative (Alt). Bag is an unordered group of members. Sequence is a group where members are ordered by some property. Alternative is a group of members where all members are alternatives to each other and hence only one member can be selected at a time. Thus a container is a resource that describes the identified resources as members and is not aware of the existence of other resources that can become member.

collection - is a closed group of members. Thus a RDF collection describes a specified number of resources.

If a common vocabulary is built with container class that can have unlimited number of members and is one of the three types, then a service provider can build a collection of members from this container. Common Vocabulary may have a container that has as its members other containers. A provider shall then refer to this common vocabulary to get access to the RDF resources semantic definition for its collection.

Different types of internet connections are described such as: Dial-up, ISDN, DSL, WLAN, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, Satelltie, etc. Each service provides a defined range of bitrate connections, the internet connection packages may be standardized based on connection type and bitrate. The technology standards organizations may define containers for the services provided. Each container may have more than one member according to the bitrate range supported by the particular technology, e.g. DSLbroadband - 256Kbps, 512Kbps, 1Mbps, 2Mbps, etc.

The ISP can get the URI for different types of internet connections from the common vocabulary. The property and sub-property with object values can be obtained with this URI.

Advantage of this type of vocabulary definitions are enormous. Standard resource metadata provided by respective technology standards organization will ensure authenticity of information. It will be easier to build web content for transition to web 3.0. Search Engines and other web applications can be built to provide comparative results that is the basis of open market concept. This architecture creates a web of data resources thus data from diverse sources is integrated and presented in the common vocabulary.