The rapid advancement of semantic web technologies, along with the fact that they are at various levels of maturity, has left many practitioners confused about

Thoroughly covering basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations, this text focuses on the established foundations in this area

The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XM

With this book, the promise of the Semantic Web -- in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web -- is not just a technical possibility, but a

The Semantic Web represents a vision for how to make the huge amount of information on the Web automatically processable by machines on a large scale. For this