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An ontology defines the terms used to describe and represent an area of knowledge. Ontologies are critical for applications that need to search across or merge information from diverse communities. Although XML DTDs and XML Schemas are sufficient for exchanging data between parties who have agreed to the definitions beforehand, their lack of semantics prevents machines from reliably performing this task with new XML vocabularies. The Semantic Web is a vision for the future of the Web in which information is given explicit meaning, making it easier

Abstract As the semantic web grows, there is the need for more and more formal ontology definitions in standard languages such as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) of the World Wide Web Consortium. With that said, there are numerous projects that predate OWL that can serve as useful foundations. One such project is bibTeX, a method of marking up bibliographic data, primarily for use in LaTeX documents, but also useful for generic bibliographic storage. This document describes bibTeX recast in OWL for use in RDF applications. Status of this