.RDF File Extension

Resource Description Framework File

Developer N/A
Popularity
3.7  |  61 Votes
 

What is an RDF file?

An RDF file is a document written in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) language, which is used to represent information about resources on the web. It contains information about a website in a structured format called metadata. RDF files may include a site map, an updates log, page descriptions, and keywords.

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RDF files are also used by Mozilla Web browsers, such as Firefox, to store settings for windows and toolbar configurations.

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ArcGIS Report Document File

Developer ESRI
Popularity
3.4  |  34 Votes
 

Report file created by ArcGIS Desktop, an application suite for geospatial analysis and visualization; stores a generated report, which can include GIS statistics formatted as tabular data; generated from a report layout (.RLF) file.

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Windows

Report Definition File

Developer N/A
Popularity
3.4  |  21 Votes
 

Spreadsheet containing report output generated by a database or spreadsheet program such as Oracle or Microsoft Excel.

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Windows
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Relux Project File

Developer Relux
Popularity
3.2  |  17 Votes
 

Lighting project created by Relux, a program used for modeling and simulating lighting conditions; can be an interior or exterior project; saves the building or room layout as well as light sources and their properties; can be visualized in the software to see if the lighting solution is suitable for construction.

Programs that open RDF files

Windows
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PowerProducer Disc Image

Developer Cyberlink
Popularity
2.9  |  14 Votes
 

Disc image created with PowerProducer, a video capture and authoring program; contains all the content of a movie project, including special effects and settings; saved in a compressed format and may be burned to a disc for storage so it can be opened at a later time.

Programs that open RDF files

Windows

ReDIF Template

Developer RePEc
Popularity
3.5  |  4 Votes
 

An RDF file may also be a template saved in the Research Documents Information Format (ReDIF). It contains metadata that describes one or more research publications, such as journals, papers, books, and software. RDF files store information about the publication, such as the author, email to contact the author, title of the publication, editor, date published, and workplace of the author of the publication.

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RDF files are used by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), a group dedicated to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and other related sciences. RePEc uses RDF and .REDIF files to store metadata about publications, which allows the publications to be more easily organized and accessed. RDF files are used to contain metadata with ISO-LATIN-1 or Windows-1252 character encoding, whereas REDIF files are used to store metadata with UTF-8 character encoding.

RDF files are typically created with ReDIF software but since they are stored in plain text can be opened and edited by any text editor. Metadata stored in the RDF file is organized into separate lines of field_name: field value. An example of a field name and value is Author-Workplace-Name: University of Minnesota.

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Windows
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Reaction Data File

Developer Molecular Design Limited
Popularity
3.0  |  1 Vote
 

An RDF file may also be a reaction data file saved in a format created by Molecular Design Limited (MDL). It contains the same molecule data as an .SDF file and, typically, additional reaction data. Computational chemists export RDF files from ISIS, REACCS, and other chemical databases, for use in chemical analysis programs.

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Molecular Design Limited (also known as MDL Information Systems, before being acquired by Symyx in 2007) created several file formats that computational chemists use regularly. These include the SDF and RDF formats.

Both the SDF and RDF formats save chemical data in a plain text format. RDF files include one or more records that typically document one or more reactant molecules and the product(s) of their reaction. Each record also contains a data block documenting the reaction itself.

How to open an RDF file

You can open an RDF file with CGRTools (multiplatform), Chemaxon Instant JChem (multiplatform), and other chemical and reaction analysis programs.

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