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Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing) 1st Edition
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With more substantial funding from research organizations and industry, numerous large-scale applications, and recently developed technologies, the Semantic Web is quickly emerging as a well-recognized and important area of computer science. While Semantic Web technologies are still rapidly evolving, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies focuses on the established foundations in this area that have become relatively stable over time. It thoroughly covers basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations.
The book concentrates on Semantic Web technologies standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium: RDF and SPARQL enable data exchange and querying, RDFS and OWL provide expressive ontology modeling, and RIF supports rule-based modeling. The text also describes methods for specifying, querying, and reasoning with ontological information. In addition, it explores topics that are clearly beyond foundations, such as tools, applications, and engineering aspects.
Written by highly respected researchers with a deep understanding of the material, this text centers on the formal specifications of the subject and supplies many pointers that are useful for employing Semantic Web technologies in practice.
The book has an accompanying website with supplemental information.
- ISBN-10142009050X
- ISBN-13978-1420090505
- Edition1st
- Publication dateOctober 31, 2011
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.38 x 1.22 x 9.45 inches
- Print length456 pages
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A 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
… The nine chapters of the book guide the reader through the major foundational languages for the semantic Web and highlight the formal semantics. … the book has very interesting supporting material and exercises, is oriented to W3C standards, and provides the necessary foundations for the semantic Web. It will be easy to follow by the computer scientist who already has a basic background on semantic Web issues; it will also be helpful for both self-study and teaching purposes. I recommend this book primarily as a complementary textbook for a graduate or undergraduate course in a computer science or a Web science academic program.
―Computing Reviews, February 2010
This book is unique in several respects. It contains an in-depth treatment of all the major foundational languages for the Semantic Web and provides a full treatment of the underlying formal semantics, which is central to the Semantic Web effort. It is also the very first textbook that addresses the forthcoming W3C recommended standards OWL 2 and RIF. Furthermore, the covered topics and underlying concepts are easily accessible for the reader due to a clear separation of syntax and semantics … I am confident this book will be well received and play an important role in training a larger number of students who will seek to become proficient in this growing discipline.
―From the Foreword, Amit Sheth, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
About the Author
Sebastian Rudolph works in the institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
Markus Krötzsch works in the Computing Laboratory of the University of Oxford, England, UK.
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- Publisher : Chapman and Hall/CRC
- Publication date : October 31, 2011
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 456 pages
- ISBN-10 : 142009050X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1420090505
- Item Weight : 1.75 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.38 x 1.22 x 9.45 inches
- Part of series : Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,783,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Pascal Hitzler (see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de/ for his personal homepage, and http://www.semantic-web-book.org/ and http://www.semantic-web-grundlagen.de/ for more information on his Semantic Web books) is endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS) at the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University. Until July 2019 he was endowed NCR Distinguished Professor, Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research, and Director of Data Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. He is director of the Data Semantics (DaSe) Lab. From 2004 to 2009, he was Akademischer Rat at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and from 2001 to 2004 he was postdoctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence institute at TU Dresden in Germany. In 2001 he obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork, and in 1998 a Diplom (Master equivalent) in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen in Germany. His research record lists over 400 publications in such diverse areas as semantic web, artificial intelligence, neural-symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. His research is highly cited. He is founding Editor-in-chief of the Semantic Web journal, the leading journal in the field, and of the IOS Press book series Studies on the Semantic Web. He is co-author of the W3C Recommendation OWL 2 Primer, and of the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by CRC Press, 2010, which was named as one out of seven Outstanding Academic Titles 2010 in Information and Computer Science by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine, and has translations into German and Chinese. He is on the editorial board of several journals and book series and a founding steering committee member of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Association and the Association for Ontology Design and Patterns, and he frequently acts as conference chair in various functions. For more information about him, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.

Sebastian Rudolph (http://sebastian-rudolph.de/) is a full professor for Computational Logic at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He obtained his PhD in mathematics from the Dresden University of Technology in 2006 and his habilitation in computer science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2011. His active research interests include knowledge representation, logic, algebra, complexity theory, machine learning, optimization, database theory, and computational linguistics. He stayed as a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, the TU Vienna, the LIRMM in Montpellier and IRISA in Rennes. He contributed to the OWL 2 standard as participant of the OWL working group of the W3C, and co-authored two textbooks on Semantic Web modeling languages. Besides his academic work, he is a semiprofessional classical singer.

As of 2010, Markus Krötzsch is a post-doctoral researcher at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He completed his PhD studies at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2010. His research interest is the intelligent automatic processing of information, ranging from the foundations of formal knowledge representation to application areas like the Semantic Web. He is the lead developer of the successful Semantic Web application platform Semantic MediaWiki, co-editor of the W3C OWL 2 specification, and chief maintainer of the semanticweb.org community portal.
Current information and contact details about Markus is given at his homepage http://korrekt.org/.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2011Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseI usually do not write reviews, in fact, I think this is my first time. However, I felt obligated to write one, since it has been a great help on my PhD work.
First of all, if you are looking for a book on best practices on how to model your ontologies this is not the book for you. In fact, I have bought some other books for that, but none lived to my expectations.
However, if you are like me and want to actually understand the theory and foundations of RDF and OWL this is a must. I am currently working on a new language for probabilistic ontologies and I wanted to make sure I had a good understanding of OWL and RDF before I moved forward. I have read a lot of papers and books before this one, but I have to say this was by far the best read!
The authors also make some presentations available on the web in case you want to use them to teach others. I have used their material to "teach" my advisors in order to make sure I understood what I read. And I have to say it was of great help.
All in all, if you are looking for a book to understand what you can represent in RDF and OWL (syntax and semantics), the problems of merging rules and OWL, how DL reasoners work (Tableaux), and what kind of queries you can ask in RDF/OWL and a bit on how they work, I highly recommend this book. Otherwise, if you looking for a ontology engineering book, this is not for you (it just has one chapter on this topic and it just touches the surface on the subject). But then again, this book is not supposed to be a book on ontology engineering in the first place.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2010Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThe most completed book about Semantic Web technologies RDF and OWL, and its formal semantics. Well illustrated with examples and codes. Very exhaustive. The book also covers Rules and SPARQL, and comes with a lot of exercises.
The content is up to date and covers recent recommendations from the W3C like OWL2 and SROIQ knowledge bases.
A brief overview of XML and predicate logic is given as appendix.
Personally, I would have appreciated a more precise introduction about the Semantic Web architecture and technologies, and some words about the upper layers which are not covered by this book (proof and trust).
- Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2010Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseI have some basic familiarity with RDF, and Semantic Technologies. This book from chapter 1 on was a horrible read. Terribly written with long arduous run on sentences which were frustrating to comprehend. The examples were atrocious. The book was written by academics who must like hearing themselves speak. The writing was so bad it reminded me of reading a legal contract. I bought the book since it was rather new, and my other OWL, RDF, and Semantic Web books are a bit dated now. I was looking for some help with modeling best practices. I generally don't return books, but this one is already in the box again. I'd use it as a door stop but the almost $80 price tag prevents me from using it as such.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2014I work in Health Care IT and hardly anyone in the field really understands Description Logic and OWL. It took years of reading and experimenting to understand how SNOMED-CT logic works. In this book, all in one place, there is explanation of OWL DL and reasoner algorithms, RDF, and Datalog. If everyone in Health Care IT read this book, we'd advance ten times faster.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2016Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseExcellent resource.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2011Format: HardcoverI chose a used book, but they gave me a new one, and I feel lucky and happy with my choice.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2011Format: HardcoverThis is not the best book. I have read some other books that cover semantic web technologies and languages in easy way to understand. Also, they cover proof and trust which this book does not cover.
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azReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 20154.0 out of 5 stars it would be great if all examples are presented in both rdf/xm format ...
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThe books is excellently presented for beginners in semantic web or semantic technologies in general. Concepts and terminologies are well explained. However, it would be great if all examples are presented in both rdf/xm format as well as turtle format.







