A Semantic Web Primer
Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen
Second Edition
A Semantic Web Primer Antoniou and van Harmelen
Second Edition
computer science / Internet
A Semantic Web Primer
Second Edition
Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen
The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has the potential to revolutionize the World Wide
Web and its uses.
A Semantic Web Primer
provides an introduction and guide to this still emerging eld, describing its key
ideas, languages, and technologies. Suitable for use as a textbook or for self-study by professionals, it concentrates on
undergraduate-level fundamental concepts and techniques that will enable readers to proceed with building applications
on their own and includes exercises, project descriptions, and annotated references to relevant online materials.
A Semantic Web Primer
provides a systematic treatment of the different languages (XML, RDF, OWL, and rules) and
technologies (explicit metadata, ontologies, and logic and inference) that are central to Semantic Web development as well as
such crucial related topics as ontology engineering and application scenarios. This substantially revised and updated second
edition reects recent developments in the eld, covering new application areas and tools. The new material includes a
discussion of such topics as SPARQL as the RDF query language; OWL DLP and its interesting practical and theoretical
properties; the SWRL language (in the chapter on rules); OWL-S (on which the discussion of Web services is now based).
The new nal chapter considers the state of the art of the eld today, captures ongoing discussions, and outlines the most
challenging issues facing the Semantic Web in the future. Supplementary materials, including slides, online versions of
many of the code fragments in the book, and links to further reading, can be found at http://www.semanticwebprimer.org.
Grigoris Antoniou is Professor at the Institute for Computer Science, FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology–
Hellas), Heraklion, Greece. Frank van Harmelen is Professor in the Department of Articial Intelligence at the Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Cooperative Information Systems series
“This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn about the Semantic Web. By gathering the fundamental
topics into a single volume, it spares the novice from having to read a dozen dense technical specications. I have used the
rst edition in my Semantic Web course with much success.”
—Jeff Hein, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University
“This book provides a solid overview of the various core subjects that constitute the rapidly evolving Semantic Web discipline.
While keeping most of the core concepts as presented in the rst edition, the second edition contains valuable language
updates, such as coverage of SPARQL, OWL DLP, SWRL, and OWL-S. The book truly provides a comprehensive view of the
Semantic Web discipline and has all the ingredients that will help an instructor in planning, designing, and delivering the
lectures for a graduate course on the subject.”
—Isabel Cruz, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago
The MIT Press
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
http://mitpress.mit.edu
978-0-262-01242-3
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