A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems series) Review

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If you've read about the basics of the semantic web online, you won't get much more from this book. There's only 6 pages devoted to SPARQL, and no mention of RDFa. Later chapters (especially "Ontology Engineering") are thin and weak. You learn the dirt basics, but not how to build anything meaningful with it.

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The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, hasthe potential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its use. A Semantic Web Primerprovides an introduction and guide to this still emerging field, describing its keyideas, languages, and technologies. Suitable for use as a textbook or for self-studyby professionals, it concentrates on undergraduate-level fundamental concepts andtechniques that will enable readers to proceed with building applications on theirown and includes exercises, project descriptions, and annotated references torelevant online materials. A Semantic Web Primer provides a systematic treatment ofthe different languages (XML, RDF, OWL, and rules) and technologies (explicitmetadata, ontologies, and logic and inference) that are central to Semantic Webdevelopment as well as such crucial related topics as ontology engineering andapplication scenarios. This substantially revised and updated second editionreflects recent developments in the field, covering new application areas and tools.The new material includes a discussion of such topics as SPARQL as the RDF querylanguage; OWL DLP and its interesting practical and theoretical properties; the SWRLlanguage (in the chapter on rules); OWL-S (on which the discussion of Web servicesis now based). The new final chapter considers the state of the art of the fieldtoday, captures ongoing discussions, and outlines the most challenging issues facingthe Semantic Web in the future. Supplementary materials, including slides, onlineversions of many of the code fragments in the book, and links to further reading,can be found at http://www.semanticwebprimer.org.Grigoris Antoniou is Professor atthe Institute for Computer Science, FORTH (Foundation for Research andTechnology-Hellas), Heraklion, Greece. Frank van Harmelen is Professor in theDepartment of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, theNetherlands.

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