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OWL Use Cases and Requirements Published

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Published:: 4 February 2003

The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. The draft defines "ontology." It outlines six use cases, design goals, requirements and objectives for a language which can describe the semantics of classes and properties used in Web documents. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.

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