The CG Formalism as an Ontolingua for Web-Oriented Representation Languages [chapter]

Olivier Gerbé, Guy W. Mineau
2002 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
The semantic Web entails the standardization of representation mechanisms so that the knowledge contained in a Web document can be retrieved and processed on a semantic level. RDF seems to be the emerging encoding scheme for that purpose. However, there are many different sorts of documents on the Web that do not use RDF as their primary coding scheme. It is expected that many one-to-one mappings between pairs of document representation formalisms will eventually arise. This would create a
more » ... tion where a young standard such as RDF would generate update problems for all these mappings as it evolves, which is inevitable. Rather, we advocate the use of a common Ontolingua for all these encoding formalisms. Though there may be many knowledge representation formalisms suited for that task, we advocate the use of the conceptual graph formalism.
doi:10.1007/3-540-45483-7_16 fatcat:4yvhnqt2inev5hdli3xbln3i6q