Abstract
In the current "Syntactic Web", uninterpreted syntactic constructs are given meaning only by private off-line agreements that are inaccessible to computers. In the Semantic Web vision, this is replaced by a web where both data and its semantic definition are accessible and manipulable by computer software. DAML+OIL is an ontology language specifically designed for this use in the Web; it exploits existing Web standards (XML and RDF), adding the familiar ontological primitives of object oriented and frame based systems, and the formal rigor of a very expressive description logic. The definition of DAML+OIL is now over a year old, and the language has been in fairly widespread use. In this paper, we review DAML+OIL's relation with its key ingredients (XML, RDF, OIL, DAML-ONT, Description Logics), we discuss the design decisions and trade-offs that were the basis for the language definition, and identify a number of implementation challenges posed by the current language. These issues are important for designers of other representation languages for the Semantic Web, be they competitors or successors of DAML+OIL, such as the language currently under definition by W3C.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence |
| Pages | 792-797 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |
| Event | 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02), 14th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-02) - Edmonton, Alta., Canada Duration: 28 Jul 2002 → 1 Aug 2002 |
Conference
| Conference | 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02), 14th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-02) |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Edmonton, Alta. |
| Period | 28/07/02 → 1/08/02 |
