OWL – an Ontology Language Standard with Sound Logical Underpinning

    Impact: Economic, Technological, Health and wellbeing

    Narrative

    Ontologies are used to describe the meaning of terms in a domain. Manchester has had a leading role in the design of ontology languages, algorithms and tools. Through standardization, algorithm development and tool creation, we have significantly influenced the uptake of the Ontology Web Language (OWL) and Semantic Web Technologies by public service providers and industry. For example, the NCI thesaurus and SNOMED CT are medical terminologies in OWL; specialised semantic web companies such as Clark & Parsia, Racer Systems and TopQuadrant provide semantic technologies and services that build on OWL; and companies such as Oracle and B2i Healthcare include tool support for OWL.
    Impact date2014
    Category of impactEconomic, Technological, Health and wellbeing
    Impact levelAdoption

    Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

    • Institute for Data Science and AI

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