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- RDF
- RDF integrates a variety of applications from library catalogues and world-wide directories to syndication and aggregation of news, software and content to personal collections of music, photos and events using XML as an interchange syntax. The RDF specifications provide a lightweight ontology system to support the exchange of knowledge on the web.
- Record
- A metadata record made up of some or all of the 19 metadata elements which can be used by search engines to locate the record. The record describes a resource available to the public, which could be an agency, a service, on-line information, published information, or an object.
- Refinement
- A type of element qualifier giving detail about an element, such as Date (element) modified (refinement).
- Registration of Interest (ROI)
- The first part of a staged selection process for a supplier that gives potential suppliers the opportunity to indicate their interest by sending contact details.
- Request for Information (RFI)
- A structured means of soliciting information (not offers) from the market. Used when; 'just looking', looking to gain an understanding of the market, gain knowledge to build a statement of work / specification. From a legal perspective the RFI is not part of the procurement process. BUT the document must be worded carefully to ensure no future contractual relationship is inferred.
- Request for Proposals (RFP)
- The final stage in the selection process in which the department prepares a fully documented set of requirements that is issued to suppliers whose RFI responses were evaluated as being able to meet the requirements for the new system.
- Resource
- The thing being described - which could be a service, an object, any form of published document on-line or off-line, a government agency etc. There is no limit to what could be a resource. It's anything made available to the public by any government agency.
- RFC (Request for Comment)
- Internet Engineering Task Force tool for socialising new ideas and developing standards. Regarded informally as "the rules" for the Internet (for more information, see here).
- RSS V1.0
- RDF Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforms to the W3C's RDF specification and is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based modularisation.
