September 21, 2003 at 4:21 PM
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While we were out last month the W3C had released a candidate recommendation for OWL (Web Ontology Language Guide). "OWL is a language for defining and instantiating Web ontologies. Ontology is a term borrowed from philosophy that refers to the science of describing the kinds of entities in the world and how they are related." This is just one more step in the right direction for a truly semantic Web. For a clear explanation of why this is important, check out the previously published article Mind your phraseology: Using controlled vocabularies to improve findability by Christina Wodtke.
