Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies [Hardcover]

With more substantial funding from research organizations and industry, numerous large-scale applications, and recently developed technologies, the Semantic Web is quickly emerging as a well-recognized and important area of computer science. While Semantic Web technologies are still rapidly evolving, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologiesfocuses on the established foundations in this area that have become relatively stable over time. It thoroughly covers basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations.

The book concentrates on Semantic Web technologies standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium: RDF and SPARQL enable data exchange and querying, RDFS and OWL provide expressive ontology modeling, and RIF supports rule-based modeling. The text also describes methods for specifying, querying, and reasoning with ontological information. In addition, it explores topics that are clearly beyond foundations, such as tools, applications, and engineering aspects.

Written by highly respected researchers with a deep understanding of the material, this text centers on the formal specifications of the subject and supplies many pointers that are useful for employing Semantic Web technologies in practice.

The Quest for Semantics

Building Models

Calculating with Knowledge

Exchanging Information

Semanic Web Technologies

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (RDF)

Simple Ontologies in RDF and RDF Schema

Introduction to RDF

Syntax for RDF

Advanced Features

Simple Ontologies in RDF Schema

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