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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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