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Ontologies and ontology based systems are rapidly becoming mainstream technologies, with RDF and OWL now being deployed in diverse application domains, and with major technology vendors starting to augment their existing systems with ontological reasoning. For example, Oracle Inc. recently enhanced its well-known database management system with modules that use RDF/OWL ontologies to support “semantic data management”, and their product brochure lists numerous application areas that can benefit from this technology, including Enterprise Information Integration, KnowledgeMining, Finance, Compliance Management and Life Science Research. The design of the high quality ontologies needed to support such applications is, however, still extremely challenging. In this talk I will describe the design of OWL, show how it facilitates the development of ontology engineering tools, describe the increasingly wide range of available tools, and explain how such tools can be used to support the entire design, deployment and maintenance ontology life-cycle.
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Horrocks, I. (2010). Ontology Languages and Engineering. In: Bi, Y., Williams, MA. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1_2
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