Exploring the Relationship Between FOHM and RDF

Abstract

One of the results of the Open Hypermedia work of the last decade was the Fundamental Open Hypermedia Model (FOHM) capable of representing contextual structure from a variety of hypermedia domains. As the Semantic Web becomes more important it is interesting to compare its metadata language, the Resource Description Framework (RDF), with a model such as FOHM. In this paper we examine the relationship between FOHM and RDF to see if they have equivalent expressivity. In particular we look at whether you can represent FOHM structures in RDF, either as a direct mapping from FOHM to the RDF vocabulary or by defining a FOHM schema in RDFS or OWL