Editing Web Ontology Language (section)

===Exchange syntaxes===
{{Infobox file format
| name = OWL RDF/XML Serialization
| icon = [[File:XML.svg|100px]]
| extension = .owx, .owl, .rdf
| mime = application/owl+xml, application/rdf+xml<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3870 |title=application/rdf+xml Media Type Registration (RFC3870) |author= A. Swartz |newspaper=Ietf Datatracker |author-link= Aaron Swartz |page=2 |publisher=IETF |date= September 2004 |url-status=live |access-date=15 October 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130917134108/http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3870 |archive-date= 2013-09-17}}</ref>
| owner = [[World Wide Web Consortium]]
| standard = [http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-xml-serialization/ OWL 2 XML Serialization] {{release date and age|2009|10|27}},<br />[http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#MIMEType OWL Reference] {{release date and age|2004|02|10}}
| open = Yes
}}

====RDF syntaxes====
Syntactic mappings into [[Resource Description Framework|RDF]] are specified<ref name="owl:spec:semantics_and_syntax" /><ref name="owl2:spec:rdf">{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-mapping-to-rdf-20091027/ |title= OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Mapping to RDF Graphs |last2=Motik |first2=Boris |last1=Patel-Schneider |first1=Peter F. |date=2009-10-27 |work=OWL 2 Web Ontology Language |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=18 April 2010 }}</ref>
for languages in the OWL family. Several RDF [[serialization| serialization format]]s have been devised. Each leads to a syntax for languages in the OWL family through this mapping. RDF/XML is normative.<ref name="owl:spec:semantics_and_syntax" /><ref name="owl2:spec:rdf" />

====OWL2 XML syntax====
OWL2 specifies an [[XML]] serialization that closely models the structure of an OWL2 ontology.<ref name="owl2:spec:xml">{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-xml-serialization-20091027/ |title=OWL 2 Web Ontology Language XML Serialization |last1=Motik |first1=Boris |last2=Parsia |first2=Bijan |last3=Patel-Schneider |first3=Peter F. |date=2009-10-27 |work=OWL 2 Web Ontology Language |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=18 April 2010 }}</ref>

====Manchester Syntax====
The Manchester Syntax is a compact, human readable syntax with a style close to frame languages.
Variations are available for OWL and OWL2. Not all OWL and OWL2 ontologies can be expressed in this syntax.<ref name="ms:note">{{cite web |url= http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-manchester-syntax/ |title= OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax |last1=Horridge |first1=Matthew |author-link1=Matthew Horridge |last2=Patel-Schneider |first2=Peter F. |date=2009-10-27 |work=W3C OWL 2 Web Ontology Language |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=18 April 2010 }}</ref>