This lesson looks at the different flavors of OWL, each of which is a distinct subset of the full OWL standard. Some are simpler and/or much more computationally efficient for reasoning than the full standard. Fortunately, regardless of which flavor one works with, they are all OWL (e.g. any ontology written using any subset of OWL features is still valid OWL and should be consumable by most OWL tools). This lesson also discusses when you might want to use one or the other.
URL: http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/semantic-university/flavors-owl
Keywords: Instances, Properties, Classes, Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Publisher: Cambridge Semantics
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P15M
- Knows that Web Ontology Language (OWL) is available in multiple "flavors" that are variously optimized for expressivity, performant reasoning, or for applications involving databases or business rules
- Understands that OWL Full supports all available constructs and is most appropriately used when reasoning performance is not a concern.
- Knows Web Ontology Language, or OWL (2004), as a RDF vocabulary of properties and classes that extend support for expressive data modeling and automated inferencing (reasoning).
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