Semantic technology

The ultimate goal of semantic technology is to help machines understand data. Well-known technologies that enable the encoding of semantics in data include the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). These technologies formally represent the meaning involved in information. For example, ontology can describe concepts, relationships between things, and categories of things. Embedding semantics in data offers significant advantages, such as enabling reasoning over data and dealing with heterogeneous data sources.

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