Web Semantic and Ontology

Elodie Marie Gontier

Professor of French and History, Paris, France.

DOI: 10.4236/ait.2015.52003                

Abstract

Ontologies have become a popular research topic in many communities. In fact, ontology is a main component of this research; therefore, the definition, structure and the main operations and applications of ontology are provided. Web content consists mainly of distributed hypertext and hypermedia, and is accessed via a combination of keyword based search and link navigation. Hence, the ontology can provide a common vocabulary, and a grammar for publishing data, and can supply a semantic description of data which can be used to preserve the ontologies and keep them ready for inference. This paper provides basic concepts of semantic web, and defines the structure and the main applications of ontology.

Keywords

Ontology, Semantic Web, Language OWL

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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