Cooking the Semantic Web with the OWL API
Abstract
This paper discusses issues that surround the provision of
application support using OWL ontologies. It presents the OWL API, a
high-level programmatic interface for accessing and manipulating OWL
ontologies. We discuss the underlying design issues and illustrate
possible solutions to technical issues occurring in systems that
intend to support the OWL standard. Although the context of our
solutions is that of a particular implementation, the issues
discussed are largely independent of this and should be of interest
to a wider community.