A Query and Inference Service for RDF - This paper describes some existing techniques used in logic program evaluation and examines how RDF descriptions fit into this framework. www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/queryservice.html
Automatic RDF Metadata Generation for Resource Discovery - Paper by Charlotte Jenkins, Mike Jackson, Peter Burden and Jon Wallis on using automatic web page classification represented in RDF. www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~ex1253/rdf_paper
Deploying Metadata Representations of Web Content - A Netscape technote on how they will be using metadata (RDF) in their next generation web browser (Netscape 6 aka Mozilla). developer.netscape.com/docs/technote/metadata/metadata.html
Query + Metadata + Logic = Metalog - A paper on a new querying language, Metalog, which allows users to write inference rules and queries in English-like syntax. Shows how these reasoning rules have equivalent representation both as RDF descriptions and as logic programs. www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/metalog.html
Semantic Web roadmap - An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture of the Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee. www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html
Semantic Web: Why RDF is more than XML - An overview on why RDF model is different from the XML model by Tim Berners-Lee. www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDF-XML.html
Storing RDF in a relational database - An informal summary of various approaches to storing RDF in a relational database by Sergey Melnik (Stanford. www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/db.html
Web design issues; What a semantic can represent - What the semantic web is not, and how other data models map into directed labelled graphs by Tim Berners-Lee. www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html