Survey on Ontology Languages

Abstract

Nowadays, Ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in research field and application area of computer science. Ontology is used not only in semantic web but also in database and applications that need to share domain information for specific area of knowledge. Ontology comprises as the concept, properties and restrictions on properties. So, we can build Ontology for every object and thing in our environment that has relationship and properties. Ontology is a formal representation of set of concepts within a domain and relationships between those concepts. This paper intends to understand about the Ontology and how many different kinds exist in Ontology. This paper also intend to the data relationship (such as dictionary) based on Ontology. This paper will discuss about the Ontology and Ontology languages for application fields.