Archive for December, 2009

OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer

In the W3C Recommendation of 27 October 2009 the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language is presented. The primer provides an approachable introduction to OWL 2, including orientation for those coming from other disciplines. Visit W3C

Frankfurt Semantic Web December Meetup

Location & date: Frankfurt – Germany Tuesday, December 15 at 5:00 PM   Description: Zuerst: Die initiale Start-Up Gruppe trifft sich um die nächsten Schritte zu diskutieren. Alle sind herzlich willkommen. Ideen und konkrete Beiträge hoch erwünscht. Dann: Ein Ueberblick über realisierte Semantic Web Applications von verschiedenen Anbietern in der Banken- und Versicherungswelt wird von [...]

RDF stands for Resource Description Framework

RDF is short for Resource Description Framework. RDF is the language for describing resources and contents in the semantic web. In the semantic web RDF is used to describe resources on the web. Resources are addressed by a unique URI. A URI looks like a normal Internet URL. Look at the following fragment of a [...]

What is the Semantic Web?

Describing things in a way that computer applications can understand it. The semantic web describes relations between concepts. For example: A isPartOf B B hasType C C isMemberOf D Also properties of concepts can be described: A hasAge X B hasSize X C has Length X Where in this case X could be of type [...]

Protege 4.0 released

December 3rd Protege 4.0 was released. So, what is new in this version? First of all it supports the OWL 2.0 specification, which is approaching approval. Other new features in this release are: support for editing multiple ontologies, menu drag and drop user interface elements, the ability to import from repositories on the web and [...]

Using SVN in Eclipse with a proxy

Are you getting errors about the “RA layer request failed” and “svn: PROPFIND request failed on ..”, followed by an error about not being able to connect to the SVN server? Well, here is what to do: Install the latest Subclipse plugin for Eclipse. Read the manual at Subclipse Set the right proxy settings at [...]