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Web Ontology Language: OWL

In: Handbook on Ontologies

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  • Grigoris Antoniou

    (University of Crete)

  • Frank van Harmelen

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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Summary The expressivity of RDF and RDF Schema that was described in [12] is deliberately very limited: RDF is (roughly) limited to binary ground predicates, and RDF Schema is (again roughly) limited to a subclass hierarchy and a property hierarchy, with domain and range definitions of these properties. However, the Web Ontology Working Group of W3C [10] identified a number of characteristic use-cases for Ontologies on the Web which would require much more expressiveness than RDF and RDF Schema. It proceeded to define OWL, the language that is aimed to be the standardised and broadly accepted ontology language of the Semantic Web. In this chapter, we first describe the motivation for OWL in terms of its requirements, and the resulting non-trivial relation with RDF Schema. We then describe the various language elements of OWL in some detail.

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  • Grigoris Antoniou & Frank van Harmelen, 2009. "Web Ontology Language: OWL," International Handbooks on Information Systems, in: Steffen Staab & Rudi Studer (ed.), Handbook on Ontologies, pages 91-110, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ihichp:978-3-540-92673-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3_4
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    1. Lingling Zhang & Minghui Zhao & Zili Feng, 2019. "Research on Knowledge Discovery and Stock Forecasting of Financial News Based on Domain Ontology," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(03), pages 953-979, May.
    2. Nguyen, Trinh Hoang & Prinz, Andreas & Friisø, Trond & Nossum, Rolf & Tyapin, Ilya, 2013. "A framework for data integration of offshore wind farms," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 150-161.

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