World Wide Web Consortium issues Web Ontology Language candidate recommendations; Emerging ontology standard, OWL, strengthens Semantic Web Foundations.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 August 2003-WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM: World Wide Web Consortium issues Web Ontology Language candidate recommendations; Emerging ontology standard, OWL, strengthens Semantic Web Foundations(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08192003 Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued Web Ontology Language (OWL) as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.

Candidate Recommendation is an explicit call for implementations, indicating that the document has been reviewed by all other W3C Working Groups, that the specification is stable, and appropriate for implementation. OWL is a language for defining structured, Web-based ontologies which enable richer integration and interoperability of data across application boundaries. Early adopters of these...