| The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable descriptions allow more intelligent software systems to be written, automating the analysis & exploitation of web-based information. Software agents will be able to create automatically new services from already published services, with potentially huge implications for models of e-Business.
Semantic Web Technologies provides an overview of key semantic knowledge technologies & research. The authors explain (semi-)automatic ontology generation & metadata extraction, along with ontology management & mediation. Further chapters examine how Semantic Web technology is being applied in knowledge management ("Semantic Information Access") and in the next generation of Web services. This book:
- Provides an exposition of the state-of-the-art in Semantic Web research & key technologies; Explains the use of ontologies & metadata to achieve machine-interpretability; Describes methods for ontology learning & metadata generation; Discusses ontology management & evolution, covering ontology change detection & propagation, ontology dependency & mediation; Illustrates the theoretical concepts with 3 case studies on industrial applications in digital libraries, the legal sector and the telecommunication industry.
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field will find this guide essential to the technologies of the Semantic Web. | |
