The Semantic Web (also known as the Web of Data) is growing rapidly and becoming a decentralized social and knowledge platform for publishing and sharing information. In the early days of the Semantic Web (1999-2006), research efforts of the community were centered around knowledge representation; thus, most of the research work was focused on building ontologies (ontology engineering), developing formal languages to represent them (ontology language), methodologies to evaluate and evolve ontologies (ontology evaluation and evolution (OE)), and logic for reasoning with them.
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