A Developer's Guide to the Semantic Web

The Semantic Web represents a vision for how to make the huge amount of information on the Web automatically processable by machines on a large scale. For this purpose, a whole suite of standards, technologies and related tools have been specified and developed over the last couple of years, and they have now become the foundation for numerous new applications.

A Developer's Guide to the Semantic Web helps the reader to learn the core standards, key components, and underlying concepts. It provides in-depth coverage of both the what-is and how-to aspects of the Semantic Web. From Yu's presentation, the reader will obtain not only a solid understanding about the Semantic Web, but also learn how to combine all the pieces to build new applications on the Semantic Web.

Software developers in industry and students specializing in Web development or Semantic Web technologies will find in this book the most complete guide to this exciting field available today. Based on the step-by-step presentation of real-world projects, where the technologies and standards are applied, they will acquire the knowledge needed to design and implement state-of-the-art applications.

Autorentext
Liyang Yu is Senior Software Developer with Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, GA, USA. He is a regular speaker on Semantic Web research and development issues at international conferences. His previously published introductory book on Semantic Web services has been used as the basic textbook for related courses by universities worldwide.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Inhalt

Web of Data: Towards the Idea of the Semantic Web

The Building Block for the Semantic Web: RDF

Other RDF-related Technologies: Microformats, RDFa and GRDDL

RDFS and Ontology

OWL: Web Ontology Language

SPARQL: Querying the Semantic Web

FOAF: Friend of A Friend

Semantic Markup at Work: Rich Snippets and SearchMonkey

Semantic Wiki

DBpedia

Linked Open Data

Building the Foundation for Development on the Semantic Web

Jena: a Framework for Development on the Semantic Web

Follow Your Nose: A Basic Semantic Web Agent

More Application Examples on the Semantic Web