# OWL Web Ontology Language - a W3C standard for authoring ontologies with formal, machine-processable semantics for classes, properties, and logical relationships. > [!info]- Canonical definition > This term is maintained in the [[vocab|PKM Vocabulary]] SKOS source, not here. > `pkmv:OWL` · [term page](https://w3id.org/pkm/vocab/OWL) · [Turtle](https://w3id.org/pkm/vocab/terms/OWL.ttl) ## Scope The target language for the eventual Ontology stage (e.g. via Protege), building on the SKOS taxonomy. ## Broader - [[W3C Standard (Term)|W3C Standard]] — generic (ISO 25964) ## Collections - [[Concept Collection (Collection)|Concept Collection]] - [[Semantic Web Standards (Collection)|Semantic Web Standards]] --- #vocab/term · created 2026-08-27 · modified 2026-08-28