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Semantic Web, Ontologies, OWL
W3C’s Ontology Language (OWL)


  • Categorizes the basic concepts in terms of classes:
    • classes can be viewed as “sets” of possible concepts
      • e.g., svgEntity in our example
    • hierarchies of concepts can be defined as sub-classes
  • Properties are defined by:
    • constraints on their range and domain, or
    • specialization (sub-properties)

Ivan Herman, W3C 57 (76)