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The new public review draft of the document "ebXML Registry Profile for Web Ontology Language (OWL) Version 1.5" has been released. Being produced by the OASIS ebXML Registry Semantic Content Management Subcommittee, it defines a new version of the ebXML profile used for publishing, management, discovery and reuse of the ontologies developed by the OWL Lite standards. This document tries to define the normative ebXML Registry Profile for the OWL (Web Ontology Language) Lite. It has the purpose to normatively specify how the OWL Lite constructs are

The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on the World Wide Web, or as a globally linked database.The Semantic Web was thought up by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW, URIs, HTTP, and HTML. There is a dedicated team of people at the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) working to improve, extend and standardize the system, and many languages, publications, tools and so on have already been developed.

The W3C’s motto is “Leading the Web to Its Full Potential.” This seems a reasonable role for it to aspire to, but it raises at least two questions: can any organization actually lead the Web, and what is its full potential? I believe these two questions are tightly interrelated, and as far as any answers are available, it’s the Web itself that offers them. Clearly, a complete picture of the Web’s full potential should consider its human impact, not least because people are the Web’s most significant components. However, I won’t even

The original Scientific American article on the Semantic Web appeared in 2001. It described the evolution of a Web that consisted largely of documents for humans to read to one that included data and information for computers to manipulate. The Semantic Web is a Web of actionable information--information derived from data through a semantic theory for interpreting the symbols.This simple idea, however, remains largely unrealized. Shopbots and auction bots abound on the Web, but these are essentially handcrafted for particular tasks; they have little