The W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things. OWL is a computational logic-based language such that knowledge expressed in OWL can be exploited by computer programs to verify consistency or make implicit knowledge explicit. OWL documents, known as ontologies, can be published in the World Wide Web and are part of the W3C’s Semantic Web technology stack.
Year published: 2012