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Note: The following pages are presented for historical purposes only. RDF PLOOP, presented here, has been superseded by URF PLOOP.

Although the W3C Resource Definition Framework (RDF) is adept at describing a series of subjects, predicates, and predicate values, there exists no standard specification for translating between an RDF instance and a graph of object instances of an object-oriented programming language. In particular, the RDF specification on its own has no means for designating programming language class constructor parameters, or for indicating a property relative to an object instance.

This specification prescribes techniques for identifying programming language classes within RDF, provides an RDF property for identifying programming language class properties within RDF, and specifies a processor for constructing a hierarchy of programming language objects based upon an RDF description.

PLOOP Documents

PLOOP Specification Latest Version