Design Goals

• Directly usable with the state of the WWW at the time of the first release (2008)
• Usable in a W3C Semantic Web environment, but not dependent on it
• Works with minimal reasoning
• OWL DL, so that it can be mixed with other OWL DL schemas and data without turning the result into OWL Full.
• Syntax-neutral
• Industry-neutral
• Suitable for all stages of the value chain
• Extensible
• Decoupled from product innovation (product types and features) in particular industries
• Dynamic Data Granularity
• Lexical Carry-over
• Incremental Refinement
• Dynamic Degree of Disambiguation
• Deferred Consensus