Contextual ontologies for the semantic Web - an enabling technology

To realize the goals of the semantic Web, there is a need of working on approaches focused on the machine processing semantics and approaches to systematically define conceptual models about data semantics. Ontologies are a primary means to deploy the semantic Web vision, but managing the context-dependent semantics remains an open problem. In this paper we discuss the role of contexts on the semantic Web and, present a contextual ontology modeling language called C-OML.