The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF Export

@article{citeulike:355362, abstract = {XML and RDF are the current standards for establishing semantic interoperability on the Web, but XML addresses only document structure. RDF better facilitates interoperation because it provides a data model that can be extended to address sophisticated ontology representation techniques. We explain the role of ontologies in the architecture of the Semantic Web. We then briefly summarize key elements of XML and RDF, showing why using XML as a tool for semantic interoperability will be ineffective in the long run. We argue that a further representation and inference layer is needed on top of the Web's current layers, and to establish such a layer, we propose a general method for encoding ontology representation languages into RDF/RDF schema. We illustrate the extension method by applying it to Ontology Interchange Language, an ontology representation and inference language}, author = {Decker, S. and Melnik, S. and van Harmelen, F. and Fensel, D. and Klein, M. and Broekstra, J. and Erdmann, M. and Horrocks, I.}, citeulike-article-id = {355362}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=877487}, journal = {Internet Computing, IEEE}, keywords = {semantic\_web, swf}, number = {5}, pages = {63--73}, posted-at = {2006-08-14 02:15:30}, priority = {1}, title = {The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=877487}, volume = {4}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:355362 L3 - citeulike-article-id:355362 N2 - XML and RDF are the current standards for establishing semantic interoperability on the Web, but XML addresses only document structure. RDF better facilitates interoperation because it provides a data model that can be extended to address sophisticated ontology representation techniques. We explain the role of ontologies in the architecture of the Semantic Web. We then briefly summarize key elements of XML and RDF, showing why using XML as a tool for semantic interoperability will be ineffective in the long run. We argue that a further representation and inference layer is needed on top of the Web's current layers, and to establish such a layer, we propose a general method for encoding ontology representation languages into RDF/RDF schema. We illustrate the extension method by applying it to Ontology Interchange Language, an ontology representation and inference language IS - 5 JF - Internet Computing, IEEE EP - 73 TI - The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF VL - 4 SP - 63 KW - semantic_web KW - swf AU - Decker, S AU - Melnik, S AU - van Harmelen, F AU - Fensel, D AU - Klein, M AU - Broekstra, J AU - Erdmann, M AU - Horrocks, I PY - 2000/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=877487 ER -