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Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web (Paperback)

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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications; illustrated edition edition (8 Jul 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1932394206
ISBN-13: 978-1932394207
Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 18.5 x 2 cm

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A complex set of extensions to the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web will make data and services more accessible to computers and useful to people. Some of these extensions are being deployed, and many are coming in the next years. This is the only book to explore the territory of the Semantic Web in a broad and conceptual manner.

This Guide acquaints you with the basic ideas and technologies of the Semantic Web, their roles and inter-relationships. The key areas covered include knowledge modeling (RDF, Topic Maps), ontology (OWL), agents (intelligent and otherwise), distributed trust and belief, "semantically-focused" search, and much more.

The book's basic, conceptual approach is accessible to readers with a wide range of backgrounds and interests. Important points are illustrated with diagrams and occasional markup fragments. As it explores the landscape it encounters an ever-surprising variety of novel ideas and unexpected links. The book is easy and fun to read - you may find it hard to put down.

The Semantic Web is coming. This is a guide to the basic concepts and technologies that will come with it.

About the Author

Thomas Passin is Principal Systems Engineer with Mitretek Systems, a non-profit systems and information engineering company. He has been involved in data modeling and created several complex database-backed web sites and also became engaged in a range of conceptual modeling approaches and graphical modeling technologies. He was a key member of a team that developed several demonstration XML-based web service applications, and worked on creating XML versions of draft standards originally written in ASN.1.

He graduated with a B. S. in physics from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, then studied graduate-level physics at the University of Chicago. He became involved with XML-related work in 1998, with Topic Maps in 1999 and developed the open-source TM4JScript Javascript topic map engine.

Mr. Passin is the coauthor of the book Signal Processing in C. He lives in Reston, Virginia.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction, would make a good course text, 4 Jan 2005

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It's good. Very readable, well balanced and informed. Tom starts each chapter with a mind map - I find these useful, but actually found myself referring to them _after_ I read the chapter, as a way of reviewing what was read. The book is quite high level, for example, unlike Shelley Powers' "Practical RDF", he does not delve into the technicalities of reification in RDF (on the other hand this is not a programming book, if you want that you're better off with Shelley's book). I like the way he covers related technologies, like web services and topic maps, touching on the related arguments but not descending into what, let's face it, is often an almost religious war between the factions.

Chapter one is an introduction, covering the inevitable layer cake. Chapter 2 deals with RDF, the stable semantic web language. I particularly like the way he uses graphs throughout most of this chapter, introducing the XML serialization only at the end. Chapter 3 talks about topic maps, which are in my mind 'the other way' to be semantic (though there are moves afoot to combine the two). Chapters 5 and 6 talk about annotation and searching, two potential applications of the semantic web. Neither are quite as convincing as I think Tom would like them to be. Logic and ontologies are dealt with in the next 2 chapters, and the treatment is admirably succinct but understandable. Next up are web services and agents, as we start to move towards the shadier, tricksier layers of trust and belief. Chapter 11 is a wrap-up and 2 case studies (foaf and topic map bookmarks) are given in the appendix. The bookmark use case is interesting - the five goals (find, groups, annotate, share and combine bookmarks) are actually competently addressed by the defiantly non-semantic http://del.icio.us. That's a common theme, I don't think this book will win over any die-hard semantic web sceptics. That's not what it's for.

In conclusion, a great introduction to the semantic web, best I've seen so far, and one that would make a fine course text for an undergraduate course.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Science Fiction or a possible future?, 31 Jan 2005

By	Thomas Paul (Plainview, NY USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

The semantic web is an intelligent web, that is, a web that can be intelligently used by computers. There are two things you need to know about the semantic web. First, it doesn't exist. Second, it may never exist. If this isn't enough information for you, and you want to look at what the future may hold in the area of an intelligent web, then I can't think of a better way to get an introduction to the technologies and ideas that may be part of the semantic web than by reading this book.

The author of the book takes the layers of the semantic web as proposed by the W3C and looks at each one in turn, skipping over the familiar XML and XML schema layers. The author starts with the RDF layer and gives one of the best explanations of RDF and RDF schema that you will find. RDF is the potential meta-data language of the semantic web and the author makes it clear and understandable. Other than XML, RDF is the most real layer of the W3C layer cake so this section is also the most accessible. The next chapter delves into ontology which is vaguer and less clearly defined. The chapter on web services seems a bit unnecessary except as how they fit into the semantic web. A chapter on how intelligent agents may work is included. The last section deals with how information may be verified for truthfulness and authenticity.

If you are interested in RDF then you may want this book just for that section. If you are interested in what the semantic web might look like then this book may be of interest. If you are looking for practical programming samples or ways to build intelligent agents then this isn't the book for you. This is an explorer's guide for those having no fear to tread into unknown waters. This part of the web is still uncharted but this book will help you learn what technologies may be used to fill in the missing pieces of the map.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Better than 'A Semantic Web Primer', 5 Mar 2007

By	Mr. Jan Tari "anomalocarus" (london) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I found this a less formal and in general more useful discussion of RDF and the idea of the semantic Web than the aforementioned book. It can meander a little bit (it branches off into REST, which gave me an interesting diversion but is not really relevant) but it tries hard, and succeeds, in giving a commonsense overview of what might be possible, what's hard, what is well-defined and what isn't, and more.
If you're starting out into RDF, I think this is a very good place to start.

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