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| RDF - the Resource Description Framework - is a standard way for simple descriptions to be made. What XML is for
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| syntax, RDF is for <strong>semantics</strong> - a clear set of rules for providing simple descriptive information. RDF
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| Schema then provides a way for those descriptions to be combined into a single vocabulary. RDF is integrated into a
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| variety of applications including:<br />
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| <br />
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| * library catalogs<br />
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| * world-wide directories<br />
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| * syndication and aggregation of news, software, and content<br />
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| * personal collections of music, photos, and events<br />
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| The RDF specifications provide a powerful framework for supporting the exchange of <strong>knowledge</strong> on the
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| Web.
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| <p>
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| What’s needed next is a way to develop subject - or domain - specific vocabularies. That is the role of an ontology. An
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| ontology defines the terms used to describe and represent an area of knowledge. Ontologies are used by people,
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| databases, and applications that need to share subject-specific (domain) information - like medicine, tool
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| manufacturing, real estate, automobile repair, financial management, etc. Ontologies include computer-usable
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| definitions of basic concepts in the domain and the relationships among them. They encode knowledge in a domain and
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| also knowledge that spans domains. In this way, they make that knowledge reusable.<br />
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| OWL - the Web Ontology Language - provides a language for defining structured, Web-based ontologies which delivers
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| richer integration and interoperability of data among descriptive communities. OWL uses both URIs for naming and the
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| description framework for the Web provided by RDF to add the following capabilities to ontologies:<br />
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| * Ability to be distributed across many systems<br />
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| * Scalability to Web needs<br />
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| * Compatibility with Web standards for accessibility and internationalization<br />
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| * Openess and extensiblility<br />
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| OWL and RDF implement an object-relational model allowing creation of a directed graph, a network of objects and
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| relationships describing data. It is possible to infere new information from OWL and RDF data. Ex: if a container is
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| for San Francisco then it is shipped to Oakland.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| For Tim Berners-Lee who specifies the semantic web, rules constitute a key element of the semantic web, allowing
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| integration, derivation and transformation of the data from multiple sources in a distributes, transparent and scalable
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| manner.
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| </p>
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| Bringing semantic web into BPMS-BRMS practice offers rigou,rous data modeling combined with a rule engine to reason,
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| classify and improve data quality.
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