Editing Web Ontology Language (section)

===Acronym===
{{blockquote|Why not be inconsistent in at least one aspect of a language which is all about consistency?|Guus Schreiber|''Why OWL and not WOL?''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/CorePresentations/RDFTutorial/Slides.html#%28114%29 |title=Why OWL and not WOL? |first=Ivan |last=Herman |author-link=Ivan Herman |work=Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=18 April 2010 }}</ref>}}

OWL was chosen as an easily pronounced acronym that would yield good logos, suggest wisdom, and honor [[William A. Martin]]'s ''One World Language'' knowledge representation project from the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2001Dec/0169.html|title=Re: NAME: SWOL versus WOL|work=message sent to W3C webont-wg mailing list on 27 December 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ontologe Reasoning: The Why and The How|url=http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~wandelt/SW201213/5OWLDL.pdf|access-date=January 28, 2014|author=Ian Horrocks|author-link=Ian Horrocks|page=7|year=2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/owl-overview.html|title=OWL: the original|access-date=March 22, 2020|date=July 7, 2003}}</ref>