Ontologies on the Semantic Web - Catherine Legg
Reading group paper: 3/7/2010
Author: Catherine Legg
Issue Date: 2007
Link URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2872
Citation: Legg, C. (2007). Ontologies on the semantic web. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 41, 407-451.
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Abstract: As an informational technology, the World Wide Web has enjoyed spectacular success. In just ten years it has transformed the way information is produced, stored, and shared in arenas as diverse as shopping, family photo albums, and high-level academic research. The “Semantic Web” was touted by its developers as equally revolutionary but has not yet achieved anything like the Web’s exponential uptake. This 17 000 word survey article explores why this might be so, from a perspective that bridges both philosophy and IT.
Keywords: World Wide Web, Semantic Web, ontology, W3C, XML, RDF, OWL, interoperability, description logic, tags
Type: Journal Article
Publisher's Statement: This is the published version of an article published in the journal: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. © American Society for Information Science and Technology. Used with permission.
Appears in Collections: Arts and Social Sciences Papers
Ontologies on the Semantic Web
Introduction
- The World Wide Web
- Hypertext Markup Language
- Universal Resource Identifiers
- Hyperlinks
The Semantic Web
- Semantic Web Goals
- Challenges
- Inferential tractability
- logical consistency
- rapid changability
- political
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Extensible Markup Language
- XML Schemas
- Resource Description Framework
Introduction to Formal Ontology
- History of Ontology
- Formal Ontology in Information Technology
- The Logical Expressivity of Ontology Languages
Thesaurus Ontologies
- Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- WordNet
Ontologies with Largely DL Expressivity
- Topics Maps
- RDF Schema
- DAML+OIL/OWL
- SHOE
Ontologies with First-Order Logic Expressivity (or Higher)
- Cyc
- SUMO
- SUO
Domain Ontologies
Ontology Libraries and Related Resources
Conclusion
- The Challenges Revisited
- Possible Alternatives to the Semantic Web