A Survey of Web Ontology Languages and Semantic Web Services

Ontology, Web Services, and Semantic Web Portals

Web and Semantic Web Query Languages: A Survey

A number of techniques have been developed to facilitate powerful data retrieval on the Web and Semantic Web. Three categories of Web query languages can be distinguished, according to the format of the data they can retrieve: XML, RDF and Topic Maps. This article introduces the spectrum of languages falling into these categories and summarises their salient aspects. The languages are introduce...

Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web

being used in many other applications to explicitly declare the knowledge embedded in them. However, not only are ontologies useful for applications in which knowledge plays a key role, but they can also trigger a major change in current Web contents. This change is leading to the third generation of the Web—known as the Semantic Web—which has been defined as “the conceptual structuring of the ...

Review: Semantic Web; Ontology Specific Languages for Web Application Development

This paper is based on the findings of a literature review on the field of World Wide Web. A list of some key publications and explicitly provided literature is briefly included in this paper; addressing the importance of the field of Semantic Web and describing its contributions as the mechanism for structuring the information over the web in a format so that machines can understand the semant...

Introduction to Semantic Web Ontology Languages

The aim of this chapter is to give a general introduction to some of the ontology languages that play a prominent role on the Semantic Web, and to discuss the formal foundations of these languages. Web ontology languages will be the main carriers of the information that we will want to share and integrate. 1 Organisation of This Chapter In section 2 we discuss general issues and requirements fo...