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The OWL API: A Java API for OWL ontologies

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Horridge, Matthew | Bechhofer, Sean

Affiliations: School of Computer Science, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom, E-mail: [email protected]

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Keywords: OWL, API, Java, reasoning, application development

DOI: 10.3233/SW-2011-0025

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 11-21, 2011

Published: 2011
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Abstract

We present the OWL API, a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working with OWL ontologies. The OWL API is closely aligned with the OWL 2 structural specification. It supports parsing and rendering in the syntaxes defined in the W3C specification (Functional Syntax, RDF/XML, OWL/XML and the Manchester OWL Syntax); manipulation of ontological structures; and the use of reasoning engines. The reference implementation of the OWL API, written in Java, includes validators for the various OWL 2 profiles – OWL 2 QL, OWL 2 EL and OWL 2 RL. The OWL API has widespread usage in a variety of tools and applications.

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