OWL: Additional Features
Ontologies may be extremely a large:
their management requires special care
they may consist of several modules
come from different places and must be integrated
Ontologies are
on the Web
. That means
applications may use several, different ontologies, or…
… same ontologies but in different languages
equivalence of, and relations among terms become an issue
OWL includes possibilites for class/property equivalence, version and deprecation control, etc.
Ivan Herman
, W3C Head of Offices
© 1994-2004, W3C (MIT,ERCIM,Keio)
Edinburgh, 7 April, 2004
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