Building Applications and Tools for OWL — Experiences and Suggestions

The success of the Semantic Web will largely depend on whether W3C's Web Ontology Language can reach broad acceptance and a critical mass of industry-strength applications. We have been exploiting the use of OWL with a particular focus on tool support for ontology authoring and on providing access to the Semantic Web for mobile applications. In the latter case our vision is to overlay the Semantic Web on ubiquitous computing environments making it possible to represent and interlink content and services as well as users, devices, their capabilities and the functionality they offer. In this paper we present our first experiences and lessons learned from early work and try to give constructive feedback for possible enhancements of OWL and its tools.

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@InProceedings{Liebig05:_owl_experiences, author = "Thorsten Liebig and Marko Luther and Olaf Noppens and Massimo Paolucci and Matthias Wagner and Friedrich von Henke", title = "{Building Applications and Tools for OWL -- Experiences and Suggestions}", year = 2005, booktitle = "Proc. of the Workshop on OWL Experiences and Directions 2005", address = "Galway, Ireland", month = "November", }