Introduction

The Real Estate Description Framework (RealDF) is a specification for describing real estate resources on the web. RealDF is built on RDF, URI, and XML specifications by the World Wide Web Consortium.

It supports the W3's vision of creating a semantic web where humans and machines are able to discover and learn about resources on the web.

RealDF's main purpose is to build a framework for describing real estate resources on the web and to connect these resources to people creating a web of real estate data globally. Types of data are residential, commercial, businesses, timeshares, auctions, mortgages, businesses, schools, courses, web services, and people.

RealDF is pronounced reel-def.

Use Cases

• Finding a House For Sale
• Finding a Licensed Broker
• Finding a Pre-license Real Estate Course
• Browsing Commercial Listings
• Finding a Real Estate Course

RealDF Specification Development

Current Release

• 15 May 2008 GR8C Real Estate Description Framework (RealDF) Working Draft

Recomended Readings

• W3C Resource Description Framework
• W3C RDF: Primer
• W3C RDF: Concepts and Abstract Syntax
• W3 RDF: Syntax Specification
• W3C RDF: Semantics
• W3C RDF: Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema
• W3C RDF: Test Cases
• Practical RDF by Shelly Powers
• Planet RDF

Related Technologies

• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
• Friend-of-a-Friend Project (FOAF)
• Description of a Project (DOAP)
• Biological Taxonomy (BIOL)

Historical Timeline