OWL Web Ontology Language

S. Staab, R. Studer, Grigoris Antoniou, Frank Van Harmelen

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Abstract

The OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. OWL has three increasingly-expressive sublanguages: OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full. This document is written for readers who want a first impression of the capabilities of OWL. It provides an introduction to OWL by informally describing the features of each of the sublanguages of OWL. Some knowledge of RDF Schema is useful for understanding this document, but not essential. After this document, interested readers may turn to the OWL Guide for more detailed descriptions and extensive examples on the features of OWL. The normative formal definition of OWL can be found in the OWL Semantics and Abstract Syntax.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiquity
EditorsS Staab, R Studer
PublisherSpringer
Pages1-1
Number of pages1
ISBN (Print)9781605660264
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004

Publication series

NameUbiquity
Volume2007

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