Part II: OWL - Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
Part II: OWL - Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
Part II: OWL - Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
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<strong>OWL</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong>s<br />
There are two semantics for <strong>OWL</strong>.<br />
1. Description Logic <strong>Semantic</strong>s<br />
also: Direct <strong>Semantic</strong>s; FOL <strong>Semantic</strong>s<br />
Can be obtained by translation to FOL.<br />
Syntax restrictions apply! (see next slide)<br />
2. RDF-based <strong>Semantic</strong>s<br />
No syntax restrictions apply.<br />
Extends the direct semantics with RDFS-reasoning features.<br />
In the following, we will deal with the direct semantics only.<br />
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