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Paper

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Date of Presentation

Thursday, 23 May

Time of Presentation

09.00

Presentation Level

In-The-Middle

Abstract

DAML+OIL is a language for describing ontologies, building on RDF Schema and XML Schema. It enables you to describe objects such as events, people, documents and their relationships with precision. It uses references to XML Schema datatypes to describe integers, dates and other datatypes. The iCalendar mime-directory standard is a format for describing events, to-do lists and journals, including associated date-formats, time zones, and alarms. It is used in the calendaring and scheduling applications of most major desktop and PDA personal information managers. SkiCal is an extension to iCalendar which describes public events such as concerts, sports competitions and conferences. DAML+OIL language constructs are capable of describing aspects of SkiCal objects such as price, age restrictions and start and end dates and times with precision and flexibility. SkiCal makes for a practical and useful potential application of DAML+OIL. In our presentation we describe the DAML+OIL language in general terms, and show some ways in which it can be of practical use for creating applications which store and retrieve SkiCal and other event-based information.