Study on Ontology Markup Languages for Building Domain Ontology

Abstract

Ontologies are set to play a vital role in the Semantic Web, e-Commerce, Bio-informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and many other areas by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms. Ontology is a formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. There are several types of ontology and ontology markup languages. Domain ontologies are reusable vocabularies of the concepts within the domain and their relationships. Domain ontology may also be used to define the domain. When data is marked up using ontologies, software agents can better understand the semantics and therefore more intelligently locate and integrate data for a wide variety of tasks. Many research areas have been increased about ontology, ontology mapping and ontology markup languages. In this paper, we study on several types of ontology markup languages for building domain ontology with example domain.