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OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: structural specification and functional-style syntax

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The OWL 2 Web Ontology Language, informally OWL2, is an ontology language for the Semantic Web with formally defined meaning.
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The OWL 2 Web Ontology Language, informally OWL 2, is an ontology language for the Semantic Web with formally defined meaning. OWL 2 ontologies provide classes, properties, individuals, and data values and are stored as Semantic Web documents. OWL 2 ontologies can be used along with information written in RDF, and OWL 2 ontologies themselves are primarily exchanged as RDF documents. The OWL 2 Document Overview describes the overall state of OWL 2, and should be read before other OWL 2 documents. The meaningful constructs provided by OWL 2 are defined in terms of their structure. As well, a functional-style syntax is defined for these constructs, with examples and informal descriptions. One can reason with OWL 2 ontologies under either the RDF-Based Semantics [OWL 2 RDF-Based Semantics] or the Direct Semantics [OWL 2 Direct Semantics]. If certain restrictions on OWL 2 ontologies are satisfied and the ontology is in OWL 2 DL, reasoning under the Direct Semantics can be implemented using techniques well known in the literature.

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A survey of context modelling and reasoning techniques

TL;DR: The requirements that context modelling and reasoning techniques should meet are discussed, including the modelling of a variety ofcontext information types and their relationships, of situations as abstractions of context information facts, of histories of contextInformation, and of uncertainty of context Information.
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The OWL API: A Java API for OWL ontologies

TL;DR: The OWL API is a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working with OWL ontologies that supports parsing and rendering in the syntaxes defined in the W3C specification; manipulation of ontological structures; and the use of reasoning engines.

OWL 2 Web Ontology Language

TL;DR: TheManchester Syntax is used in the OWL 2 Primer, and this document provides the language used there; it is expected that tools will extend the Manchester Syntax for their own purposes, and tool builders may collaboratively extend the common language.
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HermiT: An OWL 2 Reasoner

TL;DR: This system description paper introduces the OWL 2 reasoner HermiT, a system based on the hypertableau calculus that supports a wide range of standard and novel optimisations that improve the performance of reasoning on real-world ontologies.
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Binary RDF representation for publication and exchange (HDT)

TL;DR: This article develops a proposal of an RDF representation that modularly partitions and efficiently represents three components of RDF datasets: Header information, a Dictionary, and the actual Triples structure (thus called HDT).
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OWL 2 Web Ontology Language

TL;DR: TheManchester Syntax is used in the OWL 2 Primer, and this document provides the language used there; it is expected that tools will extend the Manchester Syntax for their own purposes, and tool builders may collaboratively extend the common language.

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