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The Semantic Web has reached a level of maturity that allows RDF and OWL to be adopted by commercial software vendors. Products that incorporate these standards are being used to help provide solutions to the increasingly complex IT challenges that many industries face. Standardization efforts for the Semantic Web have progressed to the point where efforts are starting in the integration of ontologies and rules. This paper showcases the implementation of a Semantic Web rulebase in Oracle Database 10g, and provides examples of its use within drug discovery and development. A more detailed paper is currently being prepared with Dr. Said Tabet of the RuleML initiative where a more detailed design and specification is provided explaining the
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Stephens, S. (2005). Enabling Semantic Web Inferencing with Oracle Technology: Applications in Life Sciences. In: Adi, A., Stoutenburg, S., Tabet, S. (eds) Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web. RuleML 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3791. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11580072_2
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