Title "OWL Web Ontology Language Guide W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004"

Authors Editors: Michael K. Smith, Electronic Data Systems, Chris Welty, IBM Research, Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University.

Reference OWL Web Ontology Language Guide W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004

Year 2004

URL http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/

My Summary
W3C-authored guide to the semantic Web Ontology Language - OWL.
The OWL Web Ontology Language is intended to provide a language that can be used to describe the classes and relations between them that are inherent in Web documents and applications.

This document demonstrates the use of the OWL language to

• formalize a domain by defining classes and properties of those classes,
• define individuals and assert properties about them, and
• reason about these classes and individuals to the degree permitted by the formal semantics of the OWL language.

The sections are organized to present an incremental definition of a set of classes, properties and individuals, beginning with the fundamentals and proceeding to more complex language components.

Methods
Guide; introduction and examples.

Systems Integration Relevance
OWL is our (current) choice for knowledge and metaschema representation. This document does a good job introducing the language elements. A thorough language reference is available elsewhere.

Keywords
OWL; ontology; knowledge representation