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Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata (Library Technology Reports)
In the January 2010 issue of Library Technology Reports, Karen Coyle breaks down the current state library data, and lays out a foundation for transforming data and the modern library catalog to a more modern, interactive, web-oriented entity that fits a world where physical space is no longer the highest priority in library service.
In this report, the first in a series of two, Karen begins by exploring the history of data and the catalog from its origins, tracing it all the way up to the modern world of digital records. She expains, in detail, the concept of Metadata, in terms of both its use up to the present time and its potential for the future.
She argues that library data must be transformed from being a textual entity to one based on machine readability and web compatibility. She offers a practical guidelines for this transformation, asserting that while it would necesitate a revolution of sorts, we are not as far away from a semantic web-friendly catalog as it seems
Manufacturer: American Library Association
List Price: $34.00
Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management, Knowledge Discovery, and Human Language Technologies
Despite its explosive growth over the last decade, the Web remains essentially a tool to allow humans to access information. Semantic Web technologies like RDF, OWL and other W3C standards aim to extend the Web’s capability through increased availability of machine-processable information.
Davies, Grobelnik and Mladenic have grouped contributions from renowned researchers into four parts: technology; integration aspects of knowledge management; knowledge discovery and human language technologies; and case studies. Together, they offer a concise vision of semantic knowledge management, ranging from knowledge acquisition to ontology management to knowledge integration, and their applications in domains such as telecommunications, social networks and legal information processing.
This book is an excellent combination of fundamental research, tools and applications in Semantic Web technologies. It serves the fundamental interests of researchers and developers in this field in both academia and industry who need to track Web technology developments and to understand their business implications.
Manufacturer: Springer
List Price: $99.00
Programming the Semantic Web
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 into semantically aware applications and publish rich semantic data.Each chapter walks you through a single piece of semantic technology and explains how you can use it to solve real problems. Whether you’re writing a simple mashup or maintaining a high-performance enterprise solution,Programming the Semantic Web provides a standard, flexible approach for integrating and future-proofing systems and data.This book will help you:Learn how the Semantic Web allows new and unexpected uses of data to emergeUnderstand how semantic technologies promote data portability with a simple, abstract model for knowledge representationBecome familiar with semantic standards, such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL)Make use of semantic programming techniques to both enrich and simplify current web applications
Manufacturer: O’Reilly Media
List Price: $31.99
Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management, Knowledge Discovery, and Human Language Technologies
Despite its explosive growth over the last decade, the Web remains essentially a tool to allow humans to access information. Semantic Web technologies like RDF, OWL and other W3C standards aim to extend the Web’s capability through increased availability of machine-processable information.
Davies, Grobelnik and Mladenic have grouped contributions from renowned researchers into four parts: technology; integration aspects of knowledge management; knowledge discovery and human language technologies; and case studies. Together, they offer a concise vision of semantic knowledge management, ranging from knowledge acquisition to ontology management to knowledge integration, and their applications in domains such as telecommunications, social networks and legal information processing.
This book is an excellent combination of fundamental research, tools and applications in Semantic Web technologies. It serves the fundamental interests of researchers and developers in this field in both academia and industry who need to track Web technology developments and to understand their business implications.
Manufacturer: Springer
List Price: $99.00
Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems
The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable descriptions allow more intelligent software systems to be written, automating the analysis and exploitation of web-based information.
Software agents will be able to create automatically new services from already published services, with potentially huge implications for models of e-Business.
Semantic Web Technologies provides a comprehensive overview of key semantic knowledge technologies and research. The authors explain (semi-)automatic ontology generation and metadata extraction in depth, along with ontology management and mediation. Further chapters examine how Semantic Web technology is being applied in knowledge management (“Semantic Information Access”) and in the next generation of Web services.
Semantic Web Technologies:
- Provides a comprehensive exposition of the state-of-the art in Semantic Web research and key technologies.
- Explains the use of ontologies and metadata to achieve machine-interpretability.
- Describes methods for ontology learning and metadata generation.
- Discusses ontology management and evolution, covering ontology change detection and propagation, ontology dependency and mediation.
- Illustrates the theoretical concepts with three case studies on industrial applications in digital libraries, the legal sector and the telecommunication industry.
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field will all find Semantic Web Technologies an essential guide to the technologies of the Semantic Web.
State of the art
Although the subjects of each chapter seem quite different, you get a grasp of the current state of the art technology of the semantic web after finishing the book. I can recommend this book to whoever is going to construct hubs in the semantic web.
Reviewed 1/5/2007 by W. J. Hofman
more useful for making new documents
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 write future documents in RDF/OWL, that can be parsed and “understood” in a way not easily possible with conventional HTML documents.
Note that these future documents need not necessarily be published on the Web. You could have a bunch of them in a database.
Perhaps the most plausible use of the book is in designing these future documents. Sections in the book describe how to semi-automatically derive these from existing, non-RDF or OWL data. Like existing web pages. A hard task, if you want to find some kind of semantic meaning. This book might be considered part of the Artificial Intelligence field. But trying to tackle the general problem via the smaller step of building the Semantic Web.
Reviewed 8/4/2006 by W Boudville
Manufacturer: Wiley
List Price: $130.00
Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems
The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable descriptions allow more intelligent software systems to be written, automating the analysis and exploitation of web-based information.
Software agents will be able to create automatically new services from already published services, with potentially huge implications for models of e-Business.
Semantic Web Technologies provides a comprehensive overview of key semantic knowledge technologies and research. The authors explain (semi-)automatic ontology generation and metadata extraction in depth, along with ontology management and mediation. Further chapters examine how Semantic Web technology is being applied in knowledge management (“Semantic Information Access”) and in the next generation of Web services.
Semantic Web Technologies:
- Provides a comprehensive exposition of the state-of-the art in Semantic Web research and key technologies.
- Explains the use of ontologies and metadata to achieve machine-interpretability.
- Describes methods for ontology learning and metadata generation.
- Discusses ontology management and evolution, covering ontology change detection and propagation, ontology dependency and mediation.
- Illustrates the theoretical concepts with three case studies on industrial applications in digital libraries, the legal sector and the telecommunication industry.
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field will all find Semantic Web Technologies an essential guide to the technologies of the Semantic Web.
State of the art
Although the subjects of each chapter seem quite different, you get a grasp of the current state of the art technology of the semantic web after finishing the book. I can recommend this book to whoever is going to construct hubs in the semantic web.
Reviewed 1/5/2007 by W. J. Hofman
more useful for making new documents
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 write future documents in RDF/OWL, that can be parsed and “understood” in a way not easily possible with conventional HTML documents.
Note that these future documents need not necessarily be published on the Web. You could have a bunch of them in a database.
Perhaps the most plausible use of the book is in designing these future documents. Sections in the book describe how to semi-automatically derive these from existing, non-RDF or OWL data. Like existing web pages. A hard task, if you want to find some kind of semantic meaning. This book might be considered part of the Artificial Intelligence field. But trying to tackle the general problem via the smaller step of building the Semantic Web.
Reviewed 8/4/2006 by W Boudville
Manufacturer: Wiley
List Price: $130.00
Programming the Semantic Web
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 into semantically aware applications and publish rich semantic data.
Each chapter walks you through a single piece of semantic technology and explains how you can use it to solve real problems. Whether you’re writing a simple mashup or maintaining a high-performance enterprise solution,Programming the Semantic Web provides a standard, flexible approach for integrating and future-proofing systems and data.
This book will help you:
- Learn how the Semantic Web allows new and unexpected uses of data to emerge
- Understand how semantic technologies promote data portability with a simple, abstract model for knowledge representation
- Become familiar with semantic standards, such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
- Make use of semantic programming techniques to both enrich and simplify current web applications
Reasonable, but disappointed.
I finished reading through chapter 6 so far… my overall impression is, reasonable, but feel inadequate.
There are some discussion I like: for example, the simple triple store implementation is illustrative, concept wise. However, the discussion on RDF serialization format, the example given, ontology, it just feels the words are hard to swallow. You would think a book about semantic should have very precise logic and explanation should be crystal clear. However, as I read it, I often get the feel something … “this should be this hard to explain, what is he talking about here?” … maybe I am expecting too much.
Reviewed 4/15/2010 by Oliver
What would it look like in Perl?
I found “Programming the Semantic Web” to be a useful introduction to the concept of a ‘triple store’, RDF, OWL and some existing software implementations. I particularly enjoyed Part 1, and found the example triple store, ‘simplegraph.py’ to be very simple, explanatory and fascinating. I wondered what it might look like in Perl, so I put together a CPAN module with a translation of the SimpleGraph class and implemented a number of programs from chapters 2 and 3 as Test::More perl tests. I do recommend this book and if you are enjoying the book and learning Perl, you might be interested to check out the VANAMBURG::SEMPROG::Simplegraph module at […] as a supplement to your learning experience.
Reviewed 1/14/2010 by Gordon L. Vanamburg
Planet Earth
This is the first book I have read on the semantic web that does not give me feeling that I am in outer space. It is also one of the few books that honestly appraises the current, usable state of the semantic web. It is clearly written and took me a day to read (without working the examples). In the beginning, it starts with a pure triples system built from the ground up, rather than plunging the reader into the standard technologies, which are levels of abstraction above triples and may not be essential. The reader is left with the impression that he is the one who chooses to use the technologies introduced. It is also the only book that mentions how RDF evolved. It contains many example programs using existing data sources (e.g. freebase). There is a two page introduction by Jim Hendler, one of the top figures in the semantic web and co-author of “The Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist” (also, a good companion book).
The main view of this book is the semantic web as extension, modification, and very major improvement, to relational systems. It also discusses the pure AI approach. I does not get into other uses of the semantic web, such as text retrieval or approaches such as topic maps.
The large majority of this book is in Python, the easiest and probably the best designed of modern languages. It has a few examples in JavaScript and Java. Readers are encouraged to implement the examples in other languages, if they are inclined to.
Physicists and chemists are required to run experiments to prove their assertions. Many other sciences have emulated aspects of physics to acquire the mantle. The semantic web does not ask for “experiments” although it is about semantics and, therefore, about something to be discovered. This book starts in that direction.
Reviewed 11/4/2009 by David B. Jensen
Several ways to implement semantic web applications are explored
Toby Segaran, et.al.’s PROGRAMMING THE SEMANTIC WEB tells how to use graph data to build solid, flexible applications - applications in which machines can find, share and combine data on the Web. Several ways to implement semantic web applications are explored in a guide that covers different pieces of semantic technology and how to use it to solve real problems.
Reviewed 10/13/2009 by Midwest Book Review
Awesome book for using RDF / Triple Store models in the real world
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 needed to store massive amounts of structured, but sparse, data culled from a variety of sources. Since most developers are trained solely in relational database structures, our initial inclination was to use a sharded relational data model to ensure we’d be able to get new developers up-to-speed and meet our deadline. Programming the Semantic Web provided a clear explanation of the limits of relational data models for this kind of data, and contained a great walk-thru of how an RDF-based model offered a multitude of benefits. In fact, using a triple store has reduced our development time dramatically. The book’s balanced discussion of the myriad of toolkits and RDF Stores available also helped us get off the ground selecting the right platform quickly.
Programming the Semantic Web is now required reading for all developers joining our project team. Using the ideas and models described in the book, we’ve made our system more scalable, more flexible, and dramatically accelerated our development cycles.
Reviewed 9/27/2009 by T. Greene
Manufacturer: O’Reilly Media
List Price: $39.99
Morphology and Lexical Semantics
Exploring the meanings of morphemes and how they combine to form the meanings of complex words, this book examines derived words (writer, unionize), compounds (dog bed, truck driver), and words formed by conversion. Using a series of case studies from English, Rochelle Lieber analyzes the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way. The reader is able to explore the nature of affixal polysemy—the reasons why there are multiple affixes with the same function, and the issues of mismatch between form and meaning in word formation.
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
List Price: $99.00
Web Semantics : Science Services and Agents on the World Wid
Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management, Knowledge Discovery, and Human Language Technologies
Despite its explosive growth over the last decade, the Web remains essentially a tool to allow humans to access information. Semantic Web technologies like RDF, OWL and other W3C standards aim to extend the Web’s capability through increased availability of machine-processable information.
Davies, Grobelnik and Mladenic have grouped contributions from renowned researchers into four parts: technology; integration aspects of knowledge management; knowledge discovery and human language technologies; and case studies. Together, they offer a concise vision of semantic knowledge management, ranging from knowledge acquisition to ontology management to knowledge integration, and their applications in domains such as telecommunications, social networks and legal information processing.
This book is an excellent combination of fundamental research, tools and applications in Semantic Web technologies. It serves the fundamental interests of researchers and developers in this field in both academia and industry who need to track Web technology developments and to understand their business implications.
Manufacturer: Springer
List Price: $99.00
