A lot of work has been done recently to define GEDCOM X in terms of an RDF Vocabulary by specifying an RDF Schema document that defines each of the core GEDCOM X namespaces. By providing support for RDF, GEDCOM X gains some notable benefits, including:

• assurance of conformance to industry-accepted standards
• a standard way to reference and describe resources
• compatibility with known standards for describing physical and digital artifacts via Dublin Core
• compatibility with known standards for describing users and organizations via FOAF
• a standard way to embed (genealogical) data into web pages through RDFa
• automatic compliance with powerful tools built to analyze the semantic web

The details of RDF integration are detailed in the RDF Integration document.

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