A formal representation of knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain, and the relationships among those concepts is called an ontology. Ontologies are considered one of the pillars of the Semantic Web and used in Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Semantic Web, Biomedical Informatics and many other fields. It is a structural framework for organizing information as a form of knowledge representation, although they do not have a universally accepted definition but here is one which is often used by Ontologists to define an ontology; “An Ontology is a formal specification of a shared conceptualization”[1].

A special form of (Semantic Web) vocabulary can be considered light-weight ontology, or sometimes also merely as a collection of URIs with a usually informally described meaning.

Light-weight ontologies (in particular, the often used subClassOf taxonomies and the occasionally used subPropertyOf taxonomies) can be encoded with RDF Schema (RDFS). Increasingly heavy-weight ontologies can be encoded by adding property-defined classes with increasingly expressive fragments of OWL 2.0.

Our ontology will provide useful information to future students who are interested in CS6795 Semantic Web Techniques course. Students will be able to find information about materials used in this course and the future prospects of the technologies utilized in the course. They will also be able to query the ontology using a query engine like DL Query and may search through the course material in Protégé.