Beschreibung:
This book provides a well-paced introduction to the Semantic Web, which is gaining in understanding and acceptance as new applications are realized in industry, academic, and government environments. It provides a succinct account of this new Web, its concepts, technologies and applications, and in particular demonstrates how Semantic Web technologies may be integrated and realised in several application domains including: software agents, semantic desktops, fine arts, and geospatial applications.
The Future of the Internet.- Concepts.- Ontology in Computer Science.- Knowledge Representation in Description Logic.- RDF and RDF Schema.- OWL.- Rule Languages.- Semantic Web Services.- Technologies.- Methods for Ontology Development.- Ontology Sources.- Semantic Web Software Tools.- Applications.- Software Agents.- Semantic Desktop.- Ontology Applications in Art.- Geospatial Semantic Web.