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The Semantic Web is basically an extension of the Web and of the Web-enabling database and Internet technology, and, as a consequence, the Semantic Web methodologies, representation mechanisms and logics strongly rely on those developed in databases. This is the motivation for many attempts to, more or less loosely, merge the two worlds like, for instance, the various proposals to use relational technology for storing web data or the use of ontologies for data integration. This chapter comes after one on data management, in order to first complete the picture with the description of the languages that can be used to represent information on the Semantic Web, and then highlight a few fundamental differences which make the database and Semantic Web paradigms complementary, but somehow difficult to integrate.

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  1. Dipto. Ingegneria e Scienza dell’Informazione, Università di Trento, Via Sommarive 14, 38100, Povo, TN, Italy

    Fausto Giunchiglia

  2. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Feroz Farazi

  3. Dipto. Elettronica e Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Letizia Tanca

  4. Dipto. Informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 79, 00146, Rome, Italy

    Roberto De Virgilio

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Giunchiglia, F., Farazi, F., Tanca, L., De Virgilio, R. (2010). The Semantic Web Languages. In: de Virgilio, R., Giunchiglia, F., Tanca, L. (eds) Semantic Web Information Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04329-1_3

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