EDUTELLA: P2P Networking for the Semantic Web

this paper we discuss the open source project Edutella which builds upon metadata standards definedfor the WWW and aims to provide an RDF-based metadata infrastructure for P2P applications. Edutella is thefirst system which brings together RDF and P2P concepts and exploits their strengths in a common framework,suitable for building general schema-based P2P networks for distributed and dynamic information providers. Wedescribe the goals and main services this infrastructure will provide and...