文档介绍：A
Semantic
Web
Primer
second edition
Grigoris Antoniou
and
Frank van Harmelen
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Antoniou, G. (Grigoris)
A semantic Web primer / Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen. – 2nd ed.
p. cm. –(Cooperative information systems)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-01242-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Semantic Web. I. Van Harmelen, Frank. II. Title.
. A58 2008
–dc22
2007020429
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Brief Contents
1 The Semantic Web Vision 1
2 Structured Web Documents: XML 25
3 Describing Web Resources: RDF 65
4 Web Ontology Language: OWL 113
5 Logic and Inference: Rules 157
6 Applications 185
7 Ontology Engineering 225
8 Conclusion and Outlook 245
A Abstract OWL Syntax 253
vii
Contents
List of Figures xiii
Series Foreword xv
Preface xix
1 The Semantic Web Vision 1
Today’s Web 1
From Today’s Web to the Semantic Web: Examples 3
Semantic Web Technologies 8
A Layered Approach 17
Book Overview 21
Summary 21
Suggested Reading 22
2 Structured Web Documents: XML 25
Introduction 25
The XML Language 29
Structuring 33
Namespaces 46
Addressing and Querying XML Documents 47
Processing 53
Summary 59
Suggested Reading 61
Exercises and Projects 62
ix
x Contents
3 Describing Web Resources: RDF 65
Introduction 65
RDF: Basic Ideas 67
RDF: XML-Based Syntax 73
RDF Schema: Basic Ideas 84
RDF Schema: T