Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL

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Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL
by Dean Allemang, James Hendler
from Morgan Kaufmann

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Excellent text
  This is an excellent textbook with very good coverage of the basic topics of the semantic Web languages. It is well-written and organized logically. If there were anything I would change for an introductory text it would be a little more coverage of owl 2.0 restrictions. I plan to use the text in my class on knowledge modeling this year.

• Semantic Web 101
  Around 2003 I bought my first two books about the Semantic Web and RDF. The authors of these books managed to confuse me into believing that RDF is some XML standard for knowledge representation and they basically needed an entire book to explain how to force knowledge into XML. The technology looked so painful, ugly, and wrong that I quickly gave up. A year later I met someone who explained to me that RDF (and SW) is about serializing semantic networks into triples and that reading XML/RDF is actually only... more info

• Finally a book that gets down to work
  It used to be that the only books about the Semantic Web were either theoretical treatises requiring advanced mathematical training or marketing pep-rallies. Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist fills the gap in between by providing a down-to-earth description of this important technology, describing how it can be used to provide real business value.
  Allemang and Hendler accomplish this without relying on a lot of mathematical mumbo-jumbo--the first mention of the confusing OWL 'species' doesn't... more info

• Could have been great
  There is a great need for a book like this, and the authors are well-credentialed, but unfortunately, this book is more like an introduction than a craftsman's resource. It reads like a first draft with typos, belabored repetitive text, and some odd examples. There is almost no discussion of internationalization, security, performance, or tricky basic types such as dates, times, or currency. More discussion of SPARQL would have been useful, as well as discussion of what should go in the model vs. what... more info

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