Semantic Web Languages - Towards an Institutional Perspective

The Semantic Web (SW) is viewed as the next generation of the Web that enables intelligent software agents to process and aggregate data autonomously. Ontology languages provide basic vocabularies to semantically markup data on the SW. We have witnessed an increase of numbers of SW languages in the last years. These languages, such as RDF, RDF Schema (RDFS), the OWL suite of languages, the OWLsuite, SWRL, are based on different semantics, such as the RDFS-based, description logic-based, Datalog-based semantics. The relationship among the various semantics poses a challenge for the SW community for making the languages interoperable. Institutions provide a means of reasoning about software specifications regardless of the logical system. This makes it an ideal candidate to represent and reason about the various languages in the Semantic Web. In this paper, we construct institutions for the SW languages and use institution morphisms to relate them. We show that RDF framework together wit...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: BIRTHDAY
• Authors: Dorel Lucanu, Yuan-Fang Li, Jin Song Dong
• Keywords: Applied Computing, BIRTHDAY 2006, Semantic Web, SW Languages, Various Languages