Semantics

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, Second Edition: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL
by Dean Allemang, James Hendler
Description: Semantic Web models and technologies provide information in machine-readable languages that enable computers to access the Web more intelligently and perform tasks automatically without the direction of users. These technologies are relatively recent and advancing rapidly, creating a set of unique challenges for those developing applications. Semantic Web for the Working Ontolo...

Programming the Semantic Web
by Colin Evans, Toby Segaran, Jamie Taylor
Description: With this book, the promise of the Semantic Web -- in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web -- is not just a technical possibility, but a practical reality Programming the Semantic Web demonstrates several ways to implement semantic web applications, using current and emerging standards and technologies. You'll learn how to incorporate existing data sources i...

Semantic Web Programming
by John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace, Andrew Perez-Lopez, Mike Dean
Description: The next major advance in the Web?Web 3.0?will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services...

A Developer's Guide to the Semantic Web
by Liyang Yu
Description: Covering the theory, technical components and applications of the Semantic Web, this book’s unrivalled coverage includes the latest on W3C standards such as OWL 2, and discusses new projects such as DBpedia. It also shows how to put theory into practice.

A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems series)
by Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van van Harmelen
Description: The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has the potential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its use. A Semantic Web Primer provides an introduction and guide to this still emerging field, describing its key ideas, languages, and technologies. Suitable for use as a textbook or for self-study by professionals, it concentrates on undergraduate-level f...

Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business
by David Siegel
Description: The first clear guide to the Semantic Web and its upcoming impact on the business world Imagine that, in 1992, someone handed you a book about the future of something called the World Wide Web. This book claimed that through a piece of software called a "browser", which accesses "web sites", the world economy and our daily lives would change forever. Would you have believed even...

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL
by Dean Allemang, James Hendler
Description: The promise of the Semantic Web to provide a universal medium to exchange data information and knowledge has been well publicized. There are many sources too for basic information on the extensions to the WWW that permit content to be expressed in natural language yet used by software agents to easily find, share and integrate information. Until now individuals engaged in creating ...

Ontological Engineering: with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web. First Edition (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)
by Mariano Fernandez-Lopez, Oscar Corcho
Description: Ontologies provide a common vocabulary of an area and define, with different levels of formality, the meaning of the terms and the relationships between them. Ontological engineering refers to the set of activities concerning the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that suppo...

The Semantic Web: Real-World Applications from Industry (Semantic Web and Beyond)
Description: This professional book provides a series of case studies which give examples of real benefits to be derived from the adoption of semantic web based ontologies in real world situations, such as telecommunication, B2B integration, tourism, education and more. The book is designed to create platforms for bringing experts together (key government representatives, industry and academia)...

Semantic Web: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering)
by Karin Breitman, Marco Antonio Casanova, Walt Truszkowski
Description: The Web is growing at an astounding pace surpassing the 8 billion page mark. However, most pages are still designed for human consumption and cannot be processed by machines. This book provides a well-paced introduction to the Semantic Web. It covers a wide range of topics, from new trends (ontologies, rules) to existing technologies (Web Services and software agents) to more forma...