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Web Ontology Language: making your Web search easier.

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Web Ontology Language: making your Web search easier.(Content Management)

Article Excerpt
The Web is like a huge library whose contents we can search and edit. In order to search quickly and efficiently, the contents must be organized. There are already several methodologies and techniques for searching--for example RDF (Resource Description Framework) and XML--but none fulfills all the requirements. Web Ontology Language, or OWL, is designed for applications in which content processing (content authoring) is important, rather than just presenting the content to humans. It can make searching the Web much easier, and is machine-readable as well.

Why OWL?

The future of Web languages seems to be the Semantic Web, and OWL is one of its activities. Now a question arises: What does OWL provide that XML and XML Schema don't? The answer is outlined below.

1. XML provides a syntax for structured documents, but doesn't define semantic constraints on the meaning of the documents.

2. XML Schema is a language for restricting the structure of XML documents.

3. RDF is a data model for objects ("resources") and relations between them;...

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