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Semantic Web, Ontologies, OWL
Further Possibilities in OWL


  • Class (“concept”) hierarchies can be defined
  • Classes can be constructed: union, intersection, complement,…
  • Classes can be constructed: union, intersection,

    complement,…

  • Properties can be characterized: is it transitive, is it a function…
    • remember the “left of” example
  • Properties can be characterized: is it transitive,

    is it a function…

    • remember the “left of” example
  • Equivalence/difference of properties and classes
    • eg, if ontologies from different origins are used…
    • …or to handle multilingual cases
  • Other vocabularies can be imported
  • Version control
  • etc

Ivan Herman, W3C 60 (76)