soul / 02-Apr-02
[ Semantics, Ontologies & UBL ]
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Ontology & Ontologies* [2]
•Ontologies are usually expressed in a logic-based
language, so that detailed, accurate,
consistent, sound, and meaningful distinctions can be made among the classes, properties, and
relations.
•Ontologies figure prominently in the emerging Semantic
Web as a way of representing the
semantics of documents and enabling the semantics to be used by web applications and intelligent agents.
•Ontologies can prove very useful for a community as a
way of structuring and defining the meaning
of the metadata terms that are currently
being collected and standardized.
•Using ontologies, tomorrow's applications can be
"intelligent", in the sense that
they can more accurately work at the human conceptual level.
*Quoted from: Requirements for a Web Ontology Language,
W3C Working Draft 07 March 2002.