Literate, Active OWL Ontologies
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OWL ontologies are complex computational artifacts that are intimately connected with conceptual information and with application issues that are not easily explicable in the context of an OWL document. In this paper, drawing inspiration from literate programming and active essays, I propose a new form of narratively oriented, interactive OWL document. The basic technique has been applied to the draft version of the OWL 2 primer.
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