OWL is a complex technology suite and, in many ways, quite different from what even fairly technically minded people are used to. The W3C’s OWL Primer provides a detailed introduction to the language.

Perspectival Elevator Pitches

These are relatively short (1000-1500) articles which try to articulate OWL and its intended benefits from different perspectives pitched at a general audience:

• A Semantic Web Perspective
• A Medical Informatics Perspective
• A Logics Perspective