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A Developer’s Guide to the Semantic Web

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  • Offers complete coverage of all core standards and technical components of the Semantic Web, including RDF, RDFS, OWL 1 and 2, SPARQL 1.1 and RDB2RDF and related technologies such as Turtle, Microformats, RDFa, GRDDL and SKOS

  • Provides an in-depth description of many well-known applications and projects such as FOAF, DBpedia, Linked Open Data, schema.org by Google, Yahoo! and Bing, Rich Snippets by Google, various Semantic Web applications in social network sites, data.gov and Wikidata Project

  • Explains the key concepts, core standards and technical components in real-world examples, guiding the readers step-by-step through the development process to bridge the gap between what-is and how-to

  • Includes source code for the examples and application projects, ready for download from the author’s website, www.liyangyu.com

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Core of the Semantic Web

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. RDFS and Ontology

      • Liyang Yu
      Pages 121-167
    3. OWL: Web Ontology Language

      • Liyang Yu
      Pages 169-263
    4. SPARQL: Querying the Semantic Web

      • Liyang Yu
      Pages 265-353
  3. Applied Semantic Web

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 355-355
    2. FOAF: Friend of a Friend

      • Liyang Yu
      Pages 357-382
    3. DBpedia

      • Liyang Yu
      Pages 383-414
    4. Linked Open Data

      • Liyang Yu
      Pages 415-473
    5. schema.org and Semantic Markup

      • Liyang Yu
      Pages 475-515
    6. Social Networks and the Semantic Web

      • Liyang Yu
      Pages 517-549
  4. Building Your Own Applications on the Semantic Web

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 587-587

About this book

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 purpose, a whole suite of standards, technologies and related tools have been specified and developed over the last couple of years and they have now become the foundation for numerous new applications.

A Developer’s Guide to the Semantic Web helps the reader to learn the core standards, key components and underlying concepts. It provides in-depth coverage of both the what-is and how-to aspects of the Semantic Web. From Yu’s presentation, the reader will obtain not only a solid understanding about the Semantic Web, but also learn how to combine all the pieces to build new applications on the Semantic Web.

The second edition of this book not only adds detailed coverage of the latest W3C standards such as SPARQL 1.1 and RDB2RDF, it also updates the readers by following recent developments. More specifically, it includes five new chapters on schema.org and semantic markup, on Semantic Web technologies used in social networks and on new applications and projects such as data.gov and Wikidata and it also provides a complete coding example of building a search engine that supports Rich Snippets.

Software developers in industry and students specializing in Web development or Semantic Web technologies will find in this book the most complete guide to this exciting field available today. Based on the step-by-step presentation of real-world projects, where the technologies and standards are applied, they will acquire the knowledge needed to design and implement state-of-the-art applications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Delta Air Lines, Atlanta, USA

    Liyang Yu

About the author

Liyang Yu is Senior Software Developer with Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, GA, USA. His previously published Semantic Web books are widely used as textbooks and often referenced by developers worldwide. He also actively provides services and assistance to a variety of organizations and companies about development and applications of Semantic Web technologies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Developer’s Guide to the Semantic Web

  • Authors: Liyang Yu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43796-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-43795-7Published: 11 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50652-3Published: 24 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-43796-4Published: 02 December 2014

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 829

  • Number of Illustrations: 624 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Information Storage and Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

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eBook USD 54.99
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Softcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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