OWL has been designed to meet this need for a Web Ontology Language. OWL is part of the growing stack of W3C recommendations related to the Semantic Web.

• 计算机和网络的发展需要一种网络本体论语言，OWL就是为这个而设计的。OWL是W3C一系列与语义网相关的并不断扩大的规范的一部分。