OWL and RDF Ontology article

[Mark Ellison <ellison@ieee.org>]

Hi-

I don't know if this was mentioned during the f2f yesterday, but there is a nice article (abstract below) in the July 2004 issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine that discusses use of OWL and RDF...fyi.

Regards,

Mark


 Bibliographic Entry: Jorge E. López de Vergara, Víctor A. Villagrá, Julio Berrocal, "Applying the Web Ontology Language to Management Information Definitions", IEEE Communications Magazine, no. 7, July 2004

Abstract:

The Extended Markup Language (XML) has emerged in the Internet world as a standard representation format, which can be useful to describe and transmit management information. However, XML formats alone do not give formal semantics to it. To solve this question, ontology languages based on the Resource Description Framework can be used to improve the expressiveness of management information specifications. This article presents an approach that uses an XML-based ontology language to define network and system management information. For this, the structures of the Web Ontology Language known as OWL are analyzed and compared to those used in management definitions, also studying the advantages ontology languages can provide in this area.