Glossary
- Agent: something which acts on behalf of another. In computing, this is often a piece of software carrying out a task on behalf of the user.
- Class Hierarchy: Defines the relationship between different classes.
- Class: A type of thing we want to represent.
- Extensible Markup Language (XML): a general purpose specification for representing data, with the user being able to define the structure.
- Friend Of A Friend (FOAF): allows machine-readable homepages to be created. Each page describes a person, and can be linked to pages describing their friends, or the things they do.
- Knowledge base: essentially a database which is used to store all the information on a particular topic.
- Knowledge Representation: the study of how data can be stored.
- Multi-agent system: a system of many software agents working together and sharing information.
- Ontology: a specification of the rules and conventions that a network of information will use to represent itself.
- OWL-DL: A version of OWL.
- OWL-Full: A version of OWL.
- OWL-Lite: A version of OWL.
- Resource Description Framework (RDF): a language used to define a knowledge base.
- Resource Description Framework Schema (RDFS): a language used to define the relationships between data.
- Sub-class: A specialisation of another class, which inherits the properties of that class.
- Sub-property: A specialisation of another property, which inherits the domain and range of that class.
- Super-class: A generalisation of another class, from whom that class inherits properties.
- Super-property: A generalisation of another class, from whom that class inherits its domain and range.
- The Semantic Web: an extension to the current World Wide Web, which aims to allow computers, rather than only humans, to use the web effectively, in a universally accessible platform.
- Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): a reference to a resource.
- Uniform Resource Locator (URL): a reference to a retrievable resource located on the World Wide Web.
- Web Ontology Language (OWL): a language used to define ontologies.