Semantics

Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business
by David Siegel
Average Customer Review: based on 37 reviews.
Customer Review: I consider myself a dancer of the world - allowing my aspiration to shift at every moment yet always seeking structures for workability. Pull is the kind of book that makes you realize one is a fluid set of outcomes and that everything around you has the opportunity to align with exactly where you are right now and fulfill on exactl...

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL
by Dean Allemang, James Hendler
Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews.
Customer Review: There are maybe half a dozen or so books in my library that have defined the body of knowledge that has been the subject of my career. All the others are interesting (or not) but not the definitive description of the subject. It is very rare when a new one comes along. But when one does succinctly and clearly define and describe a s...

Programming the Semantic Web
by Toby Segaran, Colin Evans, Jamie Taylor
Average Customer Review: based on 11 reviews.
Customer Review: So much written about the Semantic Web is theoretical, often verging on esoteric. Programming the Semantic Web crosses the gap from theory to practice: it's a book for real-world developers trying to bring products to market. I fortuitously discovered this book just as our company embarked on the design of a new product, one that ne...

Semantic Web Programming
by John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace, Andrew Perez-Lopez, Mike Dean
Average Customer Review: based on 10 reviews.
Customer Review: This book will help you acquire knowledge or skills in: the Semantic Web approach to Information Modeling, the use of rules to augment such models when needed, where to find data sets already formatted for Semantic Web usage or ontologies that you could adapt for your application if you don't want to create one from scratch, how to ...

A Semantic Web Primer, 2nd Edition (Cooperative Information Systems)
by Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen
Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: It is a really good book that clearly introduces principal aspects of ontologies: tools, applications, logic, engineering design and research topics. The material is easy to read and suggested readings are useful for a deeper insight of the presented topics. In fact, one of the best thinks the book have are the supplemental reading s...

Semantic Web For Dummies
by Jeffrey T. Pollock
Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: The Semantic Web is the logical next step in the evolution of the ENTIRE Web, and this book makes a strong case why its not all hype and a pipe-dream as some detractors would put it. And Jeff Pollock knows what he's talking about. A well-known figure in Semantic Web circles, he also manages Fusion - Oracle's middleware solution for t...

The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management
by Michael C. Daconta, Leo J. Obrst, Kevin T. Smith
Average Customer Review: based on 16 reviews.
Customer Review: This book is well written and comprehensive. It clearly explains highly complex subject matter. I refer to it constantly.

The Social Semantic Web
by John G. Breslin, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: October 2009

Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata
by Karen Coyle
Publisher: Amer Library Assn Editions
Publication Date: January 2010

Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing)
by Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph
Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: The most completed book about Semantic Web technologies RDF and OWL, and its formal semantics. Well illustrated with examples and codes. Very exhaustive. The book also covers Rules and SPARQL, and comes with a lot of exercises. The content is up to date and covers recent recommendations from the W3C like OWL2 and SROIQ knowledge base...