Layering the Semantic Web: Problems and Directions
01 January 2002
There is a W3C supported initiative for defining a web-based Ontology language on top of RDF(S). It turns out that such a layering cannot be achieved in a straightforward way. This paper describes the problem with the straightforward layering and lays out several alternative layering possibilities. The benefits and drawbacks of each of these possibilities are presented and analyzed.