The broad application of ontologies as shared terminological knowledge representations is one of the main strategies of the semantic web paradigm. With RDF(S) (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language) there exist W3C standards for defining web enabled ontologies which fit in the semantic layering of web languages. Although there is a bunch of OWL ontology editing and management solutions available, some of them are complicated to deploy or handle, some do not support strategies for collaborative, distributed development of ontologies, some are not Open Source or not available for the most distributed web technologies. Since PHP is by far the most distributed web development technology (as regularly confirmed by Netcraft), the semantic web paradigm will probably only be successful in a broad perspective if there are applications and tools available tightly interacting with this language. The aim of the pOWL project is thus to deliver a PHP and web-based ontology edititing and management solution to the OpenSoure community. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
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