- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (20 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471432571
- ISBN-13: 978-0471432579
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.7 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"...It is perfectly pitched at the level of computer–literate managers..." (British Journal of Healthcare Computing, February 2004)
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"The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well–defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
—Tim Berners–Lee, Scientific American, May 2001
—Tim Berners–Lee, Scientific American, May 2001
- This authoritative guide shows how the Semantic Web works technically and how businesses can utilize it to gain a competitive advantage
- Explains what taxonomies and ontologies are as well as their importance in constructing the Semantic Web
- Companion Web site includes further updates as the framework develops and links to related sites
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I was recommended this book by a colleague, who said it was still great although a bit dated (2003 ;-) in this fast evolving field. THere're now many tomes on the topic, but I concur with my friend: I would say this book is the "first one to read" (although I have not read all the books on this, just a few recent ones). It covers the basics, the why and how, as the how was seen in 2003. It's good to have this perspective if you are a newcomer, because it gives a slow and solid introduction to the stuff now used abd covered in overwhelming detail in other recent books.
Plus they are asking a fair price for the book. Buy it.
Plus they are asking a fair price for the book. Buy it.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Mediocre at best
18 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
Lots on XML, little on the Semantic Web. Not clear what audience the book is geared towards.
For managers the book is too heavy on the technical details of XML and XML Schema. For developers and architects who would actually want to implement a semantic application there is too little substance on ontologies, semantic web, semantic web services or OWL to be of any use.
Many chapters (and the book in general) are poorly organized. For a much better (and more practical) explanation of the key concepts check out the recently released "Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web".
For managers the book is too heavy on the technical details of XML and XML Schema. For developers and architects who would actually want to implement a semantic application there is too little substance on ontologies, semantic web, semantic web services or OWL to be of any use.
Many chapters (and the book in general) are poorly organized. For a much better (and more practical) explanation of the key concepts check out the recently released "Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web".
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Too high-level and dated to be very useful
21 May 2006
Format:Paperback
The book throws around all of the right buzzwords: ontologies, XML, KIF, taxonomies, metadata, etc. However, it never even properly defines these terms or organizes the information. If you already understand what the semantic web is, the book makes perfect sense but you don't learn anything new. If you don't already understand what the semantic web is, you won't be able to make sense of the author's high level descriptions and diagrams and you won't learn anything either. You can go to Wikipedia and probably get better explanations of most of the terminology. For example the Wikipedia definition of ontology from a computer science perspective is : "In computer science, an ontology is a data model that represents a domain and is used to reason about the objects in that domain and the relations between them." Why can't the author just SAY that??? Instead he wanders all over the map with a kind of philosophical musing about ontologies, and then proceeds to dissect a human resources ontology without ever properly defining why this model is useful in terms of the semantic web and what makes this model an ontology in the first place. The whole book is like this.
The only reason I give it three stars is that there is useful albeit poorly organized information in here, and if you do know what the semantic web is and you have to present the information to management you can use the individual pieces of the book to probably stitch together a pretty good introductory presentation ... providing you already know what you are doing.
However, I really recommend the book "The Semantic Web Primer" instead. It is more technical and better organized with much clearer explanations.
The only reason I give it three stars is that there is useful albeit poorly organized information in here, and if you do know what the semantic web is and you have to present the information to management you can use the individual pieces of the book to probably stitch together a pretty good introductory presentation ... providing you already know what you are doing.
However, I really recommend the book "The Semantic Web Primer" instead. It is more technical and better organized with much clearer explanations.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
low signal to noise
26 Aug 2005
Format:Paperback
Painstakingly, in a literal sense, read from cover to cover without learning much about semantic description and search (more pedestrian XML technologies, eg, XPath were covered well). Some of it, eg, on Topic Maps, is impenetrable. Very light on interesting and compelling usage and how-to of the more ambitious, semantic technologies that are the reason most would buy a book of this title.
And so, unfortunately, I agree with the negative assessments already given here: little practical information for implementers and on the contrary, the considerable time spent in attempts to decipher will not be justified, in my experience, with their pay off in knowledge that is useful or memorable.
To be fair, part of the problem, from what I gather by its absense in the book, is that the W3C semantic web technologies are not even attempting to solve any part of the ultimate problem of semantic analysis: natural language understanding. Instead the highest goal in this presentation is the /manual/ cataloging of /whole/ documents (and emails, customer questions, etc).
And so, unfortunately, I agree with the negative assessments already given here: little practical information for implementers and on the contrary, the considerable time spent in attempts to decipher will not be justified, in my experience, with their pay off in knowledge that is useful or memorable.
To be fair, part of the problem, from what I gather by its absense in the book, is that the W3C semantic web technologies are not even attempting to solve any part of the ultimate problem of semantic analysis: natural language understanding. Instead the highest goal in this presentation is the /manual/ cataloging of /whole/ documents (and emails, customer questions, etc).
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