Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

In 2004, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued a set of standards for languages and modeling tools (RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL) that form the technology of the Semantic Web, a web infrastructure for integrating and combining data drawn from diverse sources. As technology support for the Semantic Web has matured, practitioners need more than the basic concepts, or rationales for selling it to managers-they need a detailed understanding of how to put the standards to work for them. Allemang and Hendler have successfully trained scientists, analysts, knowledge engineers and domain experts--the working ontologists charged with building semantic web systems--to do just that. Their approach is to treat modeling the Semantic Web like a programming activity, similar to programming in FORTRAN or JAVA. In this book the authors bring their proven methodology to an even larger audience. von Allemang, Dean;Hendler, James A.;