Metadata for Web Resources: How Metadata Works on the Web
- By Martin Dillon. "The task of this paper: how do we gain (bibliographic) control over knowledge resources on the Web?"
- http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/dillon_paper.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.
- http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html

Semantic Web roadmap
- An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture of the Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee.
- http://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.
- http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDF-XML.html

Guidance on expressing Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework
- Working Draft
- http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/

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.
- http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/metalog.html

Storing RDF in a relational database
- An informal summary of various approaches to storing RDF in a relational database by Sergey Melnik (Stanford.
- http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/db.html

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.
- http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/queryservice.html