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A Developer’s Guide to the Semantic Web

  • offers complete coverage of all core standards and technical components of the Semantic Web, including RDF, RDFS, OWL 1 and 2, SPARQL (including features offered by SPARQL 1.1); and related technologies such as Turtle, Microformats, RDFa, GRDDL and SKOS

  • provides an in-depth description of many well-known applications and projects such as FOAF, semantic Wiki, SearchMonkey by Yahoo!, Rich Snippets by Google, Open Linked Data Project and DBpedia Project

  • explains the key concepts, core standards and technical components in real-world examples, guiding the readers step-by-step through the development process to bridge the gap between what-is and how-to

  • includes source code for the examples and application projects, ready for download from the author’s website, www.liyangyu.com

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Book

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xix
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  2. A Web of Data: Toward the Idea of the Semantic Web
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 1-18
  3. The Building Block for the Semantic Web: RDF
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 19-86
  4. Other RDF-Related Technologies: Microformats, RDFa, and GRDDL
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 87-107
  5. RDFS and Ontology
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 109-153
  6. OWL: Web Ontology Language
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 155-239
  7. SPARQL: Querying the Semantic Web
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 241-290
  8. FOAF: Friend of a Friend
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 291-314
  9. Semantic Markup at Work: Rich Snippets and SearchMonkey
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 315-330
  10. Semantic Wiki
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 331-377
  11. DBpedia
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 379-408
  12. Linked Open Data
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 409-466
  13. Building the Foundation for Development on the Semantic Web
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 467-490
  14. Jena: A Framework for Development on the Semantic Web
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 491-532
  15. Follow Your Nose: A Basic Semantic Web Agent
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 533-557
  16. More Application Examples on the Semantic Web
    Liyang Yu
    Pages 559-600
  17. Back Matter
    Pages 601-608
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

FOAF Jena OWL Ontologies RDF Rich Snippets SPARQL Search Monkey Semantic Web Web Development

Authors and affiliations

  1. 1.Delta Air LinesAtlantaUSA

About the authors

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.

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Reviews

From the reviews:

“As the title suggests, this book is about the semantic Web, the standards and technologies that allow computers to understand the meaning of information posted online. … this book covers numerous aspects of the semantic Web in significant detail … . primarily intended for software developers, researchers, and practicing professionals who want to gain expertise in the fundamentals quickly. It may also be useful for students taking courses on the semantic Web. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” (M. B. DuBois, Choice, Vol. 48 (11), August, 2011)

“This book is a good starting point, especially since finding all of this information on the Web can be difficult. … for developers who are interested in establishing a toehold, this is a nice introduction that should serve for now.” (Jeffrey Putnam, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2011)