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 semantic context. Highlighting the technological innovation of Semantic Web, this paper presents Ontology some domain specific languages for Ontology construction: eXtensible Mark-up Language, Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language; offering different ways of explicitly structuring and richly annotating Web pages. Furthermore this paper discusses how Ontology is contributing to the semantic based web system development with some example of real time applications and concludes with some existing limitations needing to be overcome.