EDUTELLA: a P2P networking infrastructure based on RDF

Metadata for the World Wide Web is important, but metadata for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks is absolutely crucial. In this paper we discuss the open source project Edutella which builds upon metadata standards defined for the WWW and aims to provide an RDFbased metadata infrastructure for P2P applications, building on the recently announced JXTA Framework. We describe the goals and main services this infrastructure will provide and the architecture to connect Edutella Peers based on exchange of RDF metadata. As the query service is one of the core services of Edutella, upon which other services are built, we specify in detail the Edutella Common Data Model (ECDM) as basis for the Edutella query exchange language (RDF-QEL-i) and format implementing distributed queries over the Edutella network. Finally, we shortly discuss registration and mediation services, and introduce the prototype and application scenario for our current Edutella aware peers.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Ambjörn Naeve, Boris Wolf, Changtao Qu, Matthias Palmér, Michael Sintek, Mikael Nilsson, Stefan Decker, Tore Risch, Wolfgang Nejdl
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Metadata Standards, RDF Metadata, RDFbased Metadata Infrastructure, WWW 2002