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Language Standardization for the Semantic Web: The Long Way from OIL to OWL

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The major objective for the development of OIL was to develop an international standard for web-based representation of ontological information. This papers reports some lessons learnt in this process.

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  1. Faculty of Sciences, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    D. Fensel

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  2. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  3. Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Ulm, James Frank Ring 0-27, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Peter Schulthess

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, Canada

    Jacob Slonim

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Fensel, D. (2002). Language Standardization for the Semantic Web: The Long Way from OIL to OWL. In: Plaice, J., Kropf, P.G., Schulthess, P., Slonim, J. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36261-4_20

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