OWL for the novice: A logical perspective

Jeff Z. Pan

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-48438-9_9

OWL for the novice: A logical perspective

Jeff Z. Pan^*

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In order to implement the Semantic Web vision, the W3C has produced a standard ontology language OWL (Web Ontology Language), which is largely based on Description Logics. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDFS) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. In this chapter, we aim at introducing some basic notions of OWL from a logical perspective. After presenting OWL in the context of the Semantic Web, this chapter will introduce the reader to the syntax and semantics of OWL and summarize the relations between RDF and OWL, in terms of syntax and semantics. Furthermore, it discusses the following questions that new users of OWL often ask: (i) What can OWL ontologies be used for? (ii) Are there any recent extensions of OWL? (iii) Are there any standard query languages that we can use to query OWL ontologies?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Semantic Web
Subtitle of host publication	Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences
Editors	Christopher J.O. Baker, Kei-Hoi Cheung
Publisher	Springer US
Pages	159-182
Number of pages	24
Volume	9780387484389
ISBN (Electronic)	9780387484389
ISBN (Print)	0387484361, 9780387484365
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48438-9_9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2007

Keywords

Description Logics
extensions of OWL
Ontology
OWL
query language

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