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OIL: an ontology language for the Semantic Web
(Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester)
Exploiting the full potential of the World Wide Web will require semantic as well as syntactic interoperability. This can best be achieved by providing a further represen-tation and inference layer that builds on existing and proposed web standards. The OIL language extends the RDF schema standard to provide just such a layer. It com-bines the most attractive features of frame based languages with the expressive power, formal rigour and reasoning services of a very expressive description logic. The re-sult is a language that is both intuitive to human users and accessible to autonomous agents, thus facilitating the development of the Semantic Web.
In this short talk I will:
- 1. give an illustrated overview of the OIL language;
- 2. show how the stated design principals are reflected in the language;
- 3. explain how OIL can form the core of a complete ontology development envi-ronment for the Semantic Web.
- Presentation slides
- e-mail: horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk
- URL: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks, http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil