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* The OWL Web Ontology Language is intended to be used when the information contained in documents needs to be processed by applications, as opposed to situations where the content only needs to be presented to humans.
* The OWL Web Ontology Language is intended to be used when the information contained in documents needs to be processed by applications, as opposed to situations where the content only needs to be presented to humans.


* OWL is an [[XML]] application, i.e. a vocabulary extension of [[RDF]] and it is seen as major element of the [[semantic net]] framework.
* OWL is an [[XML]] application, i.e. a vocabulary extension of [[RDF]] and it is seen as major element of the [[semantic web]] framework.


* {{quotation | 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.  Full}} ([http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/  OWL Web Ontology Language
* {{quotation | 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.  Full}} ([http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/  OWL Web Ontology Language Overview], retrieved 13:12, 23 November 2006 (MET))
Overview], retrieved 13:10, 23 November 2006 (MET))


== Sublanguages ==
== Sublanguages ==
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* [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/ConceptVISTA/ ConceptVISTA], An OWL-based formalization of the [[DualPlus Toolkit | DualPLUS learning activities taxonomy], but it also can be used for other ontologies.
* [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/ConceptVISTA/ ConceptVISTA], An OWL-based formalization of the [[DualPlus Toolkit | DualPLUS learning activities taxonomy], but it also can be used for other ontologies.


* [http://www.modelfutures.com/OwlEditor.html Model Futures OWL Editor] freeware.
* [http://www.modelfutures.com/OwlEditor.html Model Futures OWL Editor] (WinXP, Beta, Freeware on 13:12, 23 November 2006 (MET))


== Links ==
== Links ==

Revision as of 14:12, 23 November 2006

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Definition

  • The OWL Web Ontology Language is intended to be used when the information contained in documents needs to be processed by applications, as opposed to situations where the content only needs to be presented to humans.
  • OWL is an XML application, i.e. a vocabulary extension of RDF and it is seen as major element of the semantic web framework.
  • “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. Full” (OWL Web Ontology Language Overview, retrieved 13:12, 23 November 2006 (MET))

Sublanguages

OWL has three increasingly-expressive sublanguages: OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL.

Software

  • ConceptVISTA, An OWL-based formalization of the [[DualPlus Toolkit | DualPLUS learning activities taxonomy], but it also can be used for other ontologies.

Links

OWL standards documents
Others

References