The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services,...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 312 pages
• Published by: Wiley May 30, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471432571
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471432579
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Review
"It is perfectly pitched at the level of computer-literate managers" (British Journal of Healthcare Computing, February 2004)

"It is perfectly pitched at the level of computer-literate managers" -- British Journal of Healthcare Computing, February 2004

Product Description
"The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
—Tim Berners-Lee, Scientific American, May 2001

• This authoritative guide shows how the Semantic Web works technically and how businesses can utilize it to gain a competitive advantage
• Explains what taxonomies and ontologies are as well as their importance in constructing the Semantic Web
• Companion Web site includes further updates as the framework develops and links to related sites

Reader Reviews
Painstakingly, in a literal sense, read from cover to cover without learning much about semantic description and search (more pedestrian XML technologies, eg, XPath were covered well). Some of it, eg, on Topic Maps, is impenetrable. Very light on interesting and compelling usage and how-to of the more ambitious, semantic technologies that are the reason most would buy a book of this title. And so, unfortunately, I agree with the negative assessments already given here: little practical information for implementers and on the contrary, the considerable time spent in attempts to decipher will not be justified, in my experience, with their pay off in knowledge that is useful or memorable. To be fair, part of the problem, from what I gather by its absense in the book, is that the W3C semantic web technologies are not even attempting to solve any part of the ultimate problem of semantic analysis: natural language understanding. Instead the highest goal in this presentation is the /manual/ cataloging of /whole/ documents (and emails, customer questions, etc).