Rdfs Vs Owl
vs RDF
- The RDF vocabulary provides you terms for defining/describing instances.
The RDFS vocabulary provides you terms for defining/describing classes.
vs OWL
OWL = RDFS + more semantic features like cardinalities, union, intersection and more reasoning and inferring possibilities. It may be sufficient to use RDFS if you just need to manipulate class hierarchies and data-types, but if you need more specific semantics (DL-based) , OWL is a better option.
Resources
- https://www.researchgate.net/post/What-is-the-difference-between-RDF-Schema-and-Ontology-OWL
- https://cambridgesemantics.com/blog/semantic-university/learn-owl-rdfs/rdfs-vs-owl/
- https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3
- https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2010Jun/0094.html and https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2010Jun/0095.html
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