Web Services and Semantic Web
Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web
Abstract
This talk gives some background on the term "Ontology" and explains the key role of of ontologies in the semantic web. It proceeds by providing a categorization of semantic languages on the web. Two major ontology language standards, RDFs and OWL, both developed by W3C, are detailed. It is demonstrated how the Web Ontology Language OWL overcomes major disadvantages of RDFS. OWL is presented as a successor of RDFS and an emerding web ontology language standard recommended by W3C.
References
- Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider:
“Tutorial on OWL, Part 1”,
ISWC,
2003.
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Ehorrocks/ISWC2003/Tutorial/
electronic version: ppt - Duncan Hull, Nick Drummond:
“A Practical Introduction to Ontologies & OWL”,
in
Tutorial at the 6th International XML Summer School.
2005.
electronic version: pdf
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~hulld/pres/20050729_xml_summerschool_ontologies_Session1.pdf - Ian Horrocks:
“Ontologies and the Semantic Web”,
Roger Needham Lecture. The Royal Society, London, UK, December 2005.,
2005.
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/ian.horrocks/Seminars/seminars.html
electronic version: ppt