A SURVEY OF WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGES AND SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES

Napoleon-Alexandru SIRETEANU

Abstract


In the beginning World Wide Web was syntactic and the content itself was only readable by humans. The modern web combines existing web technologies with knowledge representation formalisms. In this sense, the Semantic Web proposes the mark-up of content on the web using formal ontology that structure essential data for the purpose of comprehensive machine understanding. On the syntactical level, standardization is an important topic. Many standards which can be used to integrate different information sources have evolved. Beside the classical database interfaces like ODBC, web-oriented standard languages like HTML, XML, RDF and OWL increase in importance. As the World Wide Web offers the greatest potential for sharing information, we will base our paper on these evolving standards.


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Keyword(s)


Ontologies, Cycl, KIF, RDF, OWL, DAML and OIL, Semantic Web Services

JEL Codes


L63, L86

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