Capturing Real-World Knowledge with Protégé OWL
February 11th, 2006 | Published in Business, News, Technology
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In the tradition of whimsical computing acronyms, OWL stands for Web Ontology Language (why? — try saying “WOL” out loud a few times). As you might expect, being a W3C standard, OWL has an XML syntax; and as a part the W3C Semantic Web technology domain, OWL allows ontologies to be shared, mixed, and merged on the World Wide Web.
A lot has been written about the Semantic Web, on which computers, and not just people, will be able to understand and respond to Web documents and other resources. A common criticism, however, is that the Semantic Web remains heavy on the grand vision and light on practical, real-world applications. While the Semantic Web was first described in 1998, most descriptions today still adopt the future tense.
In Protégé OWL, we have available today a rock-solid OWL authoring environment that is ready for daily work. Protégé and Protégé OWL are available for download, and are distributed under the Mozilla Public License. Installation is easy — OS-specific installers are available for for Windows, Linux/Unix, and Mac OS X, with or without a bundled Java runtime. Java 1.5 or later is required.
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