Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies

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OWL Full

• No constraints on the various constructs
  • owl:Class is equivalent to rdfs:Class
  • owl:Thing is equivalent to rdfs:Resource
• This means that:
  • Class can also be an individual
    • it is possible to talk about class of classes, etc.
  • one can make statements on RDFS constructs
    • declare rdf:type to be functional…
  • etc.
• A real superset of RDFS
• But: an OWL Full ontology may be undecidable!

OWL