This is the substantially updated second edition of a widely used guide to the key ideas, languages, and technologies of the Semantic Web, featuring additional coverage of new application areas, new tools, and other recent developments.The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has thepotential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its use. "A Semantic Web Primer" provides an introduction and guide to this still emerging field, describing its key ideas, languages, and technologies. Suitable for use as a textbookor for self-study by professionals, it concentrates on undergraduate-level fundamental concepts and techniques that will enable readers to proceed with building applications on their own and includes exercises, project descriptions, and annotated references to relevant online materials."A Semantic Web Primer" provides a systematic treatment of the different languages (XML, RDF, OWL, andrules) and technologies (explicit metadata, ontologies, and logic and inference) that are central to Semantic Web development as well as such crucial related topics as ontology engineering and application scenarios. This substantially revised and updated second edition reflects recent developments in the field, covering new application areas and tools. The new material includes a discussion of such topics as SPARQL as the RDF query language; OWL DLP and its interesting practical and theoretical properties; the SWRL language (in the chapteron rules); and, OWL-S (on which the discussion of Web services is now based).The new final chapter considers the state of the art of the field today, captures ongoing discussions, and outlines the most challenging issues facing the Semantic Web in the future.
- ISBN: 978-0-262-01242-3
- Editorial: MIT
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés