OWL

W3C language for writing ontologies on the Web, based on description logics. OWL 2 followed in 2009.

Read the specification ↗ w3.org

Part of threads Expressiveness against tractability settles; Same thing, many names proposes; Unknown or false? proposes

builds on

• DAML+OIL standard 2001 [src]
• Description logic concept [src]
• Ontology (information science) concept [src]
• Open-world assumption concept [src]
• RDF Schema standard 2004 [src]

published by

• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src1][src2]

edited by

• Deborah McGuinness person b. 1960 [src]
  OWL Web Ontology Language Overview (2004), with Frank van Harmelen
• Frank van Harmelen person b. 1960 [src]
  OWL Web Ontology Language Overview (2004)
• Ian Horrocks person b. 1958 [src]
  OWL Semantics and Abstract Syntax (2004)
• Pat Hayes person b. 1944 [src]
  OWL Semantics and Abstract Syntax (2004)
• Peter Patel-Schneider person [src]
  OWL Semantics and Abstract Syntax (2004)

contributors

• Guus Schreiber person [src]
  co-chair of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group
• Jim Hendler person b. 1957 [src]
  co-chair of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group

subject of

• From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The Making of a Web Ontology Language writing 2003 [src]
• Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist writing 2008 [src]

built upon by

• Financial Industry Business Ontology standard 2014 [src]
• Identity and co-reference concept [src]
• ISO 15926 standard 2003 [src]
• SAREF standard 2015 [src]

implemented by

• Protégé project 1987 [src]

succeeded by

• OWL 2 standard 2009 [src]

critiqued by

• When owl:sameAs Isn't the Same: An Analysis of Identity in Linked Data writing 2010 [src]
  Critiques the use of owl:sameAs for links that do not mean strict identity.