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within OWL, relative to RDF, for describing properties, data classes, relationships between the
data classes, etc. Additional features for ontologies, enabled by OWL, include extensibility, open-
ness, and ability to be distributed across dierent domains, interoperability, and scalability over
the web. e prominent underlying concept of OWL is information content processing, which
facilitates widespread machine interpretability as well, instead of limiting the content presentation
only for human consumption. e use of URIs, within the RDF for the representation of data,
allows the blending of information from a variety of sourc ...