The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF
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XML and RDF are the current standards for establishing semantic interoperability on the Web, but XML addresses only document structure. RDF better facilitates interoperation because it provides a data model that can be extended to address sophisticated ontology representation techniques. We explain the role of ontologies in the architecture of the Semantic Web. We then briefly summarize key elements of XML and RDF, showing why using XML as a tool for semantic interoperability will be ineffective in the long run. We argue that a further representation and inference layer is needed on top of the Web's current layers, and to establish such a layer, we propose a general method for encoding ontology representation languages into RDF/RDF schema. We illustrate the extension method by applying it to Ontology Interchange Language, an ontology representation and inference language.
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- Authors
- Decker, S., Melnik, S., van Harmelen, F., Fensel, D., Klein, M., Broekstra, J., Erdmann, M., & Horrocks, I.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Venue
- IEEE Internet Computing
- Published
- 2000
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 63-73
- ISSN
- 1089-7801 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2159938093
- Cited by
- 743
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 35 · 2013: 24 · 2012: 29
- FWCI
- 49.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.vu.nl
- Locations
- IEEE Internet Computing (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information Systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web Applications and Data Management
- Keywords
- semantic web, XML, RDF, semantic interoperability, ontology (information science), RDF Schema, data model
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