OWL profiles (cont.)

• In the current OWL standard, three such “profiles” are defined:

• • OWL Full: no restrictions whatsoever
  • OWL DL (and its “sub profile” OWL Lite): major restrictions to ensure implementability

• The OWL 2 work will add new profiles

• • profiles that are simple enough to be implementable with simple rule engines (like the first few examples we had)
  • profiles that are optimized to a small number of class and property definition but a large amount of data
  • etc.