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Introductions & Tutorials

• Introducing OWL: Web Ontology Language
• OWL Intro, Dave Thau 2004
• RDF Intro Tolle
• Protege Documentation
• protege tutorial

Specifications

• OWL Web Ontology Language Overview /\
• RDF Primer
• RDFS
• OWL Family
• rdf-syntax-grammar
• rdf-mt

• RDF Triples in XML

Best Practices

• W3C Best Practices
• TopQuadrant Best Practices
• TDWG SubclassOrNot?
• w3schools

Critics

• Critical artivles by RobMcCool?: Rethinking the Semantic Web part1 part2

Link/Resource Collection

• PlanetRDF
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• software toolkits
• Tolle

Existing Ontologies

Link Collection

• IEEE Standard Upper Ontology Working Group (SUO WG)
• ProtegeOntologiesLibrary
• http://ontoware.org/ontologies/
• http://www.schemaweb.info/

Relevant Ontologies

• TDWG LSID Vocabularies OWL files
• vCard
• FOAF
• Dublin Core
• SWEET, Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology
• ISO countries, countries
• Ontology for Geographic Information - Metadata ( ISO 19115:2003 ) OWL DL