10 Best Books on Semantic Web Technologies

“Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview of key semantic knowledge technologies and research. It explains semi-automatic ontology generation and metadata extraction in depth, along with ontology management and mediation. It also examines how semantic web technology is being applied in knowledge management and in the next generation of web services.

“Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services” Book Review: The book contains an introduction to the semantic web and semantic web services. It builds a firm foundation in the concept of the semantic web, its principal technologies, its real-world applications and its relevant coding examples. It discusses its major technical enablers and the relationships among these components. It presents several applications of the semantic web, including swoogle, FOAF and a detailed design of a semantic web search engine. It also covers the building blocks of an advanced web technology. The book concludes with discussions on how to add semantics to traditional Web service descriptions and how to develop a search engine for semantic web services.

“Semantic Web Technologies and Legal Scholarly Publishing (Law, Governance and Technology Series)” Book Review: The book deals with the applications of semantic publishing technologies in the legal domain, i.e. the use of semantic web technologies to address issues related to the legal scholarly publishing. It investigates and proposes solutions for three main issues that semantic publishing needs to address within the context of the legal scholarly publishing. It also lists the need of tools for linking document text to a formal representation of its meaning. It discusses the lack of complete metadata schemas for describing documents. The book introduces EARMARK, a markup meta language that allows one to create markup documents without the structural and semantic limits imposed by markup languages such as XML. It also introduces four user-friendly tools like LODE, KC-Viz, graffoo and gaffe.

“Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies” Book Review: The book discusses 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. It describes methods for specifying, querying and reasoning with ontological information. Also it explores topics that are clearly beyond foundations such as tools applications and engineering aspects. It contains many pointers that are useful for employing semantic web technologies in practice.

“Semantic Web Technologies for Intelligent Engineering Applications” Book Review: This book discusses how to create intelligent engineering applications (IEAs). It lists guidelines on how they can be applied in multi-disciplinary engineering settings characteristic of engineering production systems. It also has case studies from various engineering domains demonstrating how SWTs can be used to create IEAs. At the end it contains assessment of the strengths, weaknesses and compatibilities of SWTs and an outlook on future opportunities for applying SWTs to create IEAs in flexible industrial production systems.

“Towards E-Learning Management System Using Semantic Web Technologies” Book Review: The book includes social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies. It also includes an E-learning management system. It provides basic information about the learning management system, E-learning, semantic web and the proposed model of learning management system using semantic web and a vocabulary to represent a university on semantic web. Textbook for both teachers and students.

“Visual Knowledge Modeling for Semantic Web Technologies: Models and Ontologies: 1 (Premier Reference Source)” Book Review: This book explains semantic web technologies and visual knowledge modeling as an intellectual method and a set of tools at different levels of formalization. It provides powerful visual language to structure thoughts, analyze information, transform it to personal knowledge and communicate information to support knowledge acquisition in collaborative activities.

“Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning (The Future of Learning)” Book Review: The book contains the latest research, theoretical and technological advances and applications of semantic web and web 2.0 technologies in e-learning. It provides a guide for researchers and developers to the present and future tendencies of research in this field. It contains some papers from the international workshop on ontologies and semantic web in e-learning (SWEL). It also contains technologies discussing topics such as enhancing instructor feedback with semantic web technologies, content annotation, representation and searching in geometry teaching. It lists a number of projects and experiences exploring semantic web technologies in social learning contexts and a new approach to collaborative filtering.

“Semantic Web Technologies and Ebusiness: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation” Book Review: The book presents research related to the application of semantic web technologies including semantic service oriented architecture, semantic content management and semantic knowledge sharing in e-business processes. It shows how semantic web technologies and E-business tend toward the integrated virtual organization and business process automation. It also contains research from experts around the globe bringing business, managerial and technological together.

“Canadian Semantic Web: Technologies and Applications” Book Review: The book lists advances of the semantic web by providing the most recent significant search on semantic web theory, techniques and applications in academia. It shows web research directions in future by reporting some works in progress that present ongoing research on principles and applications of the semantic web. Also it contains a set of papers from the second canadian semantic web working symposium (CSWWS 2009) and the twenty first international conference on software engineering and knowledge engineering (SEKE 2009).