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Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL
by Dean Allemang, James Hendler
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Publication Date: May 2008

A Semantic Web Primer, 2nd Edition (Cooperative Information Systems)
by Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen
Average Customer Review: 2 stars based on 1 review.
Customer Review: If you've read about the basics of the semantic web online, you won't get much more from this book. There's only 6 pages devoted to SPARQL, and no mention of RDFa. Later chapters (especially "Ontology Engineering") are thin and weak. You learn the dirt basics, but not how to build anything meaningful with it.

Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems
by John Davies, Rudi Studer, Paul Warren
Average Customer Review: 5 stars based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: The Semantic Web is said to be the future of the Web. This book suggests how that might come about. It has extensive explanations of RDF and OWL, both overlaid on XML. One big idea is to move towards Web Services and to be able to compose these into more complex entities, in a programmatic manner. Another main hope is to be able to w...

Ontological Engineering: with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web. First Edition (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)
by Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Oscar Corcho, Mariano Fernandez-Lopez
Average Customer Review: 3.5 stars based on 6 reviews.
Customer Review: The word `ontology' is usually associated with philosophical speculation on the reality of things, and if one checks the literature on philosophy one will find a diverse number of opinions on this reality. Engineers and scientists typically view philosophical musings on any topic as being impractical, and indulging oneself in these m...

Social Networks and the Semantic Web (Semantic Web and Beyond)
by Peter Mika
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: September 2007

Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential
by Tim Berners-Lee, Dieter Fensel, James A. Hendler, Henry Lieberman, Wolfgang Wahlster
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: This book is relevant to all those who suspect "WWW" stands for "World Wide Wait." If you don't understand the Internet's shortcomings, just type "antidisestablishmentarianism" into the Google search engine and try to make sense of the 5,890 returns you get. Currently, there are three billion pages of information on the Internet, but...

Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web
by Thomas B. Passin
Average Customer Review: 4.5 stars based on 6 reviews.
Customer Review: I'm not usually a fan of "explorer's guides", but this book is different. Technical books either cover how things are done, or why they are done. Most often it's about the 'how', and explorer's books just spread a thinner 'how to' over lots of topics. The value of this book is in the perspective it provides, the 'why', as opposed to ...

Web Semantics Ontology
by David Taniar, Johanna Wenny Rahayu
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Publication Date: March 2006

A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems)
by Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen
Average Customer Review: 4.5 stars based on 13 reviews.
Customer Review: Thanks to this book I now have new found confidence on the subject of the semantic web. "A semantic Web Primer" takes the reader for a fast trip around the key concepts which underlie the subject and then goes on to help the reader develop an understanding of the key tools and applications which make this technology actually work. T...

Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
by Liyang Yu
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Publication Date: June 2007
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