Two Proposals for a Semantic Web Ontology Language
27 February 2002
Recent investigations have uncovered some problems in the relationship between DAML+OIL and the new RDF model theory. There are several ways of remedying these problems, resulting in greater or lesser compatability with RDF. One possible remedy is to diverge from the RDF philosophy only on statements about descriptions, resulting in a complex web ontology language containing a description logic and that is compatible with RDF. Another possible remedy is to remain compatible with RDF only on statements about individuals, resulting in a semantic web ontology language that is very close to standard description logic, but that is not fully compatible with RDF.