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W3C ontology Web language
Definition
The Semantic Web, in particular the W3C Ontology Web Language (OWL) Recommendation, provides powerful new use-cases for information retrieval, searching, and manipulation.
Introduction
For the most part, today's World-Wide Web provides the mechanisms for interactions between human users, web servers, and the content stored on servers. The HTML standard, while nicely render-able on Web browsers, is concerned almost exclusively with content presentation (as opposed to the meaning). This leads to problems when trying to enable software agent-based interaction with the web server content because HTML may not be easily machine-processable due to under-specified information semantics. Why is agent-based interpretation of the Web important? Consider the following use-cases (some from W3C specifications) which, for various reasons, are difficult to achieve based solely on the first generation Web (see [1] for more details):
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OWL code snippets are illustrative only. For detailed explanation of the syntax, please see [3]
References
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), “OWL Web Ontology Language Guide,” http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/.
T. Berners-Lee, “Standards, Semantics, and Survival,” a talk given to the Software and Information Industry Association, New York, January 2003.
V. Haarslev and R. Moller, “Racer: A Core Inference Engine for the Semantic Web,” Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003) at Second International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2003, Sanibel Island, pp. 27–36, 2003.
S. Bechhofer, “OWL Reasoning,” http://owl.man.ac.uk/2003/why/latest/.
I. Horrocks, “Logical Foundations for the Semantic Web,” a talk given at the University of Glasgow, March 10th, 2003, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/∼horrocks.
G. Anoniou and F.V. Harmelen, “Semantic Web Primer,” MIT, Cambridge, 2004.
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Dustdar, S., Falchuk, B. (2008). Semantic Web. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_214
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