
Chapter 8
Ontology Engineering
In the previous chapters, we have investigated various formalisms for speci-
fying and querying semantic data – or phrased even more boldly: knowledge
– be it on the Web, in some company’s intranet, or elsewhere. We have seen
that those formalisms come with standardized, precisely defined syntax and
formal semantics.
So, knowledgeable about those knowledge representation formalisms and
their grounding in formal logic, we could argue that we are well-equipped and
readily prepared to go about bringing semantics to everybody in need of it.
However, being able to come up with semantic descriptions of toy examples
in some sandb ...