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OWL: Web Ontology Language

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This chapter is a natural extension of Chap. 4. As a key technical component in the world of the Semantic Web, the Web Ontology Language OWL is the most popular language to use when creating ontologies. In this chapter, we cover OWL in great detail, and after finishing this chapter, you will be quite comfortable when it comes to defining ontologies using OWL.

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  1. 1.

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2001Dec/0169.html

  2. 2.

    http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/OWL_Working_Group

  3. 3.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/#specs

  4. 4.

    http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop/

  5. 5.

    http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/OWL_Working_Group

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    http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-overview-20091027/

  7. 7.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-primer-20091027/

  8. 8.

    http://www.freebase.com/

  9. 9.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-syntax-20091027/

  10. 10.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-direct-semantics-20091027/

  11. 11.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-rdf-based-semantics-20091027/

  12. 12.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-profiles-20091027/

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Yu, L. (2014). OWL: Web Ontology Language. In: A Developer’s Guide to the Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43796-4_5

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