OWL Lite

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OWL Lite is a simplified sublanguage of the Web Ontology Language designed to support basic classification hierarchies and constraints with lower complexity than more expressive OWL variants.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Web Ontology Language sublanguage
ontology language
aimsTo balance expressivity and tractability
basedOn Description Logics NERFINISHED
belongsToCategory Semantic Web standards
knowledge representation formalisms
compatibleWith RDF NERFINISHED
RDFS NERFINISHED
designedFor basic classification hierarchies
simple constraints
hasComplexity lower than OWL DL
hasDesignGoal ease of implementation
lower computational complexity
support for simple ontologies
hasFeature decidable reasoning
subset of OWL DL constructs
hasRestriction cardinality values 0 or 1
limited use of class constructors
no arbitrary complex class expressions
hasSemanticFoundation model-theoretic semantics
hasStatus superseded by OWL 2 profiles
hasSyntax RDF/XML NERFINISHED
hasUseCase lightweight ontology modeling
simple classification systems
influenced OWL 2 EL profile NERFINISHED
OWL 2 QL profile NERFINISHED
OWL 2 RL profile NERFINISHED
introducedIn 2004
lessExpressiveThan OWL DL NERFINISHED
OWL Full NERFINISHED
notableLimitation limited expressivity for complex ontologies
restricted cardinality constraints
partOf OWL NERFINISHED
Web Ontology Language NERFINISHED
specifiedIn OWL 1 specification
standardizedBy W3C NERFINISHED
supports basic property restrictions
class hierarchies
simple cardinality constraints
taxonomy modeling
targetDomain applications needing simple ontologies
applications with limited reasoning requirements
usedIn early Semantic Web applications

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OWL DL distinguishedFrom OWL Lite
OWL DL relatedTo OWL Lite