What is involved in developing an ontology using Semantic Web technologies?
The real difficulty, when developing an ontology, is to understand the problem that has to be modeled and find an agreement on a community level. RDF Schemas and/or OWL provide a framework to formalize those ontologies in a specific language; the time and energy needed to learn and use them is only a fraction of the time needed to develop an ontology itself, ie, understand the terms and the relationships of given area of knowledge and agree with your peers. Ontology development tools, like Protégé or SWOOP, hide most of the syntax complexity and let the user concentrate on the real representation issues.
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