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Title: OIL: An Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web
Author: Dieter Fensel, Ian Horrocks, Frank van Harmelen, Deborah McGuinness, and Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Journal: IEEE Intelligent Systems
Volume: 16
Number: 2
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1041/X2038s-2001
Abstract: Currently, computers are changing from single isolated devices to entry points into a worldwide network of information exchange and business transactions. Support in the exchange of data, information, and knowledge is becoming the key issue in computer technology today. Ontologies provide a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and across application systems. Ontologies will play a major role in supporting information exchange processes in various areas. A prerequisite for such a role is the development of a joint standard for specifying and exchanging ontologies well integrated with existing Web standards. This article deals with precisely this necessity. The authors present OIL, a proposal for such a standard enabling the semantic Web. It is based on existing proposals such as OKBC, XOL, and RDFS and enriches them with necessary features for expressing rich ontologies. The article presents the motivation, underlying rationale, modeling primitives, syntax, semantics, tool environment, and applications of OIL.

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                  Harmelen and Deborah McGuinness and Peter
                  F. Patel-Schneider},
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  journal =	 {{IEEE} Intelligent Systems},
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  abstract =	 {Currently, computers are changing from single
                  isolated devices to entry points into a worldwide
                  network of information exchange and business
                  transactions. Support in the exchange of data,
                  information, and knowledge is becoming the key issue
                  in computer technology today. Ontologies provide a
                  shared and common understanding of a domain that can
                  be communicated between people and across
                  application systems. Ontologies will play a major
                  role in supporting information exchange processes in
                  various areas. A prerequisite for such a role is the
                  development of a joint standard for specifying and
                  exchanging ontologies well integrated with existing
                  Web standards. This article deals with precisely
                  this necessity. The authors present OIL, a proposal
                  for such a standard enabling the semantic Web. It is
                  based on existing proposals such as OKBC, XOL, and
                  RDFS and enriches them with necessary features for
                  expressing rich ontologies. The article presents the
                  motivation, underlying rationale, modeling
                  primitives, syntax, semantics, tool environment, and
                  applications of OIL.},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/x2038.pdf},
  doi =		 {10.1041/X2038s-2001},
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