Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in semantic web.
- Description Logic (DL, Description Logics)
- A family of formal knowledge representation languages used as the mathematical foundation for ontology languages like OWL. Description logics describe a domain in terms of individuals (specific entiti…
- Linked Data (Linked Open Data, LOD)
- A method of publishing structured data on the web so that it can be interlinked and queried across different sources using standard web technologies such as URIs and RDF (Resource Description Framewor…
- Ontology (Web Ontology, Knowledge Ontology)
- In computing and information science, a formal representation of knowledge within a domain, consisting of concepts, categories, properties, and the relationships between them. Ontologies enable machin…
- RDF (Resource Description Framework)
- A W3C standard for describing resources on the web using a graph-based data model of subject-predicate-object triples. RDF provides a foundation for the Semantic Web by enabling machine-readable metad…
- Semantic Annotation (Semantic Markup, Semantic Tagging)
- The process of adding machine-readable metadata to web content that describes the meaning of the content rather than its visual presentation. Unlike HTML markup which primarily specifies how content s…
- Semantic Enrichment (Semantic Annotation, Semantic Markup Enhancement)
- Semantic enrichment is the process of adding meaningful structural and contextual information to content that may lack it in its original representation. In the context of web accessibility, this ofte…
- Semantic Model (Semantic Tree, Semantic Web Model)
- An abstract representation of a web page that captures the meaning and relationships of its content, rather than its raw HTML structure. Unlike the Document Object Model (DOM), which represents syntac…