Book: A Semantic Web Primer

29.Aug.2009

I’ve been using microformats for some time now. I believe they’re currently the best solution for enriching semantically the web. But I wanted to know more about other developments (specially from the academic side) towards the Semantic Web vision. So I though A Semantic Web Primer would be a good start, by Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen.

The book has a good introduction on the main subjects and purposes of the field, and a thorough description of the most used technologies: XML, RDF and OWL. It also has an chapter with some applications of those semantic web technologies.

The only shortcoming is the lack of discussion over tools and more detailed use cases. That kind of information is still scattered across the academic papers world, although it is crucial for the success of these approaches.

Summing up: a good book to learn all about the core technologies of the semantic web, but you’ll need more information to work productively with them.


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