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2.7 Conclusions
We have presented the vision of the Semantic Web in this chapter. As
requirements of Semantic Web are fully justified by an ontology, the latter is
well suited to be the basis for Semantic Web implementation. We have pro-
vided a brief summary of the Semantic Web technologies and their evolution.
We have defined an ontology formally and shown a sample ontology specified
in various ontology representation schemes. We argue that though OWL pro-
vides a sophisticated ontology representation scheme with a crisp reasoning
framework, it is more suited to encode ontologies with textual data. ...