The OWL API: A Java API for OWL ontologies

Semantic Web

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-21

  Horridge, Matthew ^a   Bechhofer, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

API; Application development; Java; OWL; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858339176     PISSN: 15700844     EISSN: 22104968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SW-2011-0025     Document Type: Article

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