Book description
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, Second Edition, discusses the capabilities of Semantic Web modeling languages, such as RDFS (Resource Description Framework Schema) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). Organized into 16 chapters, the book provides examples to illustrate the use of Semantic Web technologies in solving common modeling problems. It uses the life and works of William Shakespeare to demonstrate some of the most basic capabilities of the Semantic Web. The book first provides an overview of the Semantic Web and aspects of the Web. It then discusses semantic modeling and how it can support the development from chaotic information gathering to one characterized by information sharing, cooperation, and collaboration. It also explains the use of RDF to implement the Semantic Web by allowing information to be distributed over the Web, along with the use of SPARQL to access RDF data. Moreover, the reader is introduced to components that make up a Semantic Web deployment and how they fit together, the concept of inferencing in the Semantic Web, and how RDFS differs from other schema languages. Finally, the book considers the use of SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) to manage vocabularies by taking advantage of the inferencing structure of RDFS-Plus. This book is intended for the working ontologist who is trying to create a domain model on the Semantic Web.- Updated with the latest developments and advances in Semantic Web technologies for organizing, querying, and processing information, including SPARQL, RDF and RDFS, OWL 2.0, and SKOS
- Detailed information on the ontologies used in today's key web applications, including ecommerce, social networking, data mining, using government data, and more
- Even more illustrative examples and case studies that demonstrate what semantic technologies are and how they work together to solve real-world problems
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgments
- About the authors
- Chapter 1. What is the Semantic Web?
- Chapter 2. Semantic modeling
- Chapter 3. RDF—The basis of the Semantic Web
- Chapter 4. Semantic Web application architecture
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Chapter 5. Querying the Semantic Web—SPARQL
- Publisher Summary
- Tell-and-Ask Systems
- RDF as a Tell-and-Ask System
- SPARQL—Query Language for RDF
- Construct Queries in SPARQL
- Using Results of Construct Queries
- SPARQL Rules—Using SPARQL as a Rule Language
- Advanced Features of SPARQL
- Aggregates and Grouping (SPARQL 1.1)
- Subqueries (SPARQL 1.1)
- Union
- Assignments (SPARQL 1.1)
- Federating SPARQL Queries
- Summary
- Chapter 6. RDF and inferencing
- Chapter 7. RDF schema
- Chapter 8. RDFS-Plus
- Chapter 9. Using RDFS-Plus in the wild
- Chapter 10. SKOS—managing vocabularies with RDFS-Plus
- Chapter 11. Basic OWL
- Chapter 12. Counting and sets in OWL
- Chapter 13. Ontologies on the Web—putting it all together
- Chapter 14. Good and bad modeling practices
- Chapter 15. Expert modeling in OWL
- Chapter 16. Conclusions
- Appendix. Frequently asked questions
- Further reading
- Index
Product information
- Title: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2011
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780123859662
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