Importance and early adopters

Why OWL is important:

-It allows richer integration and interoperability of data across application boundaries.

-It enables applications such as Web portal management and multimedia collections that cannot respond to English language based search tools, Web services and ubiquitous computing.

-It is playing an important role in an increasing and range of applications and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations and language extensions.

Early adopters:

-Bioinformatics

-Medical communities

-Corporate enterprise

-Governments

Importance and Early Adopters (P. Krill 2003)