Ontologies — The Semantic way for Knowledge Representation

Lokesh Sharma
12 min readMar 9, 2024

Welcome to the world of Semantic Web! 🌐 It’s a broad term where ideas and technologies come together to tackle the overwhelming amount of information scattered across the internet. The goal?

  • Standardising information stored in disparate data silos
  • Making data structured and interoperable to allow inferencing
  • Up-float knowledge that is not explicitly stated, even for machines.
The overwhelming amount of information scattered across the internet

If you believe in above goals or been overwhelmed by different terminologies, this article will simplify the chaotic landscape of the Semantic Web. Here is what you can expect:

  • Introduction - The need for Semantic Web
  • Understanding Resource Description Frameworks (RDF)
  • Why do we care about RDFS and Shared Vocabularies
  • Knowledge Representation as Ontologies

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