Knowledge Representation on the Web
Stefan Decker, D.A. Fensel, Frank van Harmelen, Ian Horrocks, Sergey Melnik, Michel C. A. Klein, Jeen Broekstra, F Baader · 2000
Exploiting the full potential of the World Wide Web will require semantic as well as syntactic interoperability. This can best be achieved by providing a further representation and inference layer that builds on existing and proposed web standards. The OIL language extends the RDF schema standard to provide just such a layer. It combines the most attractive features of frame based languages with the expressive power, formal rigour and reasoning services of a very expressive description logic. 1 Introduction The World Wide Web has been made possible through a set of widely established standards which guarantee interoperability at various levels: the TCP/IP protocol has ensured that now nobody has to worry about transporting bits over the wire anymore. Similarly, HTTP and HTML have provided a standard way of retrieving and presenting hyperlinked text documents. Applications were able to use this common infrastructure and this has lead to the WWW as we know it now. The current We...