OIL: an ontology infrastructure for the Semantic Web

• DOI: 10.1109/5254.920598
• Publication Date: 2001-03-01
• Authors: Ian Horrocks; Deborah L. McGuin...; Dieter Fensel; Peter F. Patel-Sc...; F.A.H. van Harmelen
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Researchers in artificial intelligence first developed ontologies to facilitate knowledge sharing and reuse. Ontologies play a major role in supporting information exchange across various networks. A prerequisite for such a role is the development of a joint standard for specifying and exchanging ontologies. The authors present OIL, a proposal for such a standard. Ontologies applied to the World Wide Web are creating the Semantic Web.