Knowledge Management White Papers
An Extensible Approach for Modeling Ontologies in RDF(S)
Overview RDF(S) constitutes a newly emerging standard for metadata that is about to turn the World Wide Web into a machine-understandable knowledge base. It is an XML application that allows for the denotation of facts and schemata in a web-compatible format, building on an elaborate object-model for describing concepts and relations. Thus, it might turn up as a natural choice for a widely-useable ontology description language. However, its lack of capabilities for describing the semantics of concepts and relations beyond those provided by inheritance mechanisms makes it a rather weak language for even the most austere knowledge-based system. This paper presents an approach for modeling ontologies in RDF(S) that also considers axioms as objects that are describable in RDF(S).
| Publisher | University of Karlsruhe | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2000 | Downloads | 1 |
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