Document (#36683)

Editor

McGuinness, D.L. u. F. van Harmelen

Title

OWL Web Ontology Language Overview

Issue

W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004.

Source

http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/

Year

2004

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.

Content

New Version Available: OWL 2 (Document Status Update, 12 November 2009).

Theme

Wissensrepräsentation
Semantic Web

Object

OWL

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