From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The making of a Web Ontology Language

Ian Horrocks; Peter F. Patel-Schneider; Frank Van Harmelen

doi:10.1016/j.websem.2003.07.001

From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The making of a Web Ontology Language

Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Frank Van Harmelen

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Abstract

The OWL Web Ontology Language is a new formal language for representing ontologies in the Semantic Web. OWL has features from several families of representation languages, including primarily Description Logics and frames. OWL also shares many characteristics with RDF, the W3C base of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we discuss how the philosophy and features of OWL can be traced back to these older formalisms, with modifications driven by several other constraints on OWL. Several interesting problems have arisen where these influences on OWL have clashed. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-26
Number of pages	19
Journal	Web Semantics
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2003.07.001
Publication status	Published - Dec 2003

Keywords

Description Logics
Frames
Ontologies
RDF
Semantic Web

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