QuOnto. Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontolog. Ontologies have become core components of many large applications yet the training material has not kept pace with the growing interest.
This paper addresses the issues of why one would build an ontology and presents a methodology for creating ontologies based on declarative knowledge representation systems. It leverages the two authors experiences building and maintaining ontologies in a number of ontology environments including Protege-2000, Ontolingua, and Chimaera. It presents the methodology by example utilizing a tutorial wines knowledge base example. Ontology - Geo Semantic Web. GeoNames Ontology The Semantic Web The Semantic Web is a project that intends to add computer-processable meaning (semantics) to the Word Wide Web.
In Feb 2004, The World Wide Web Consortium released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations.