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OWL Web Ontology Language Roger L. Costello David B. Jacobs The MITRE Corporation (The creation of this tutorial was sponsored by DARPA) Prerequisites OWL builds on top of (i.e., extends) RDF Schema. This tutorial assumes that you already have a solid understanding of RDF and RDF Schema. As well as this tutorial on OWL, we have also created a tutorial on RDF, and a tutorial on RDF Schema. Please see here: /rdf/ /rdf-schema/ Origins of OWL W3C Status of OWL OWL is currently (April, 03) at the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage. OWL is targeted to go to Pre-Recommendation status in May, 03. OWL should be be at the W3C Recommendation status by summer 03. For complete OWL schedule details see: /2001/sw/WebOnt/#L151 Purpose of OWL The purpose of OWL is identical to RDF Schemas - to provide an XML vocabulary to define classes, properties and their relationships. RDF Schema enables you to express very rudimentary relationships and has limited inferencing capability. OWL enables you to express much richer relationships, thus yielding a much enhanced inferencing capability. The benefit of OWL is that it facilitates a much greater degree of inferencing than you get with RDF Schemas. OWL and RDF Schema enables machine-processable semantics Organization of this Tutorial OWL gives you a syntax to express statements about properties and classes, above and beyond what you can make with RDF Schema. In this tutorial we present: Using OWL to define properties. Using OWL to define classes. OWL statements that you can incorporate into your instance documents. OWL = RDF Schema + more Note: all of the elements/attributes provided by RDF and RDF Schema can be used when creating an OWL document. Notations used in this Tutorial Two Minute Preview of OWL Before getting into the details of OWL lets spend a couple of minutes examining three examples which demonstrate some of the capabilities of OWL. Example 1: The Robber and the Speeder Any Relationship between the Robber and the Speeder?