Semantic web for the working ontologist
by Dean Allemang · first published 2008
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The Semantic Web is a web infrastructure for integrating and combining data drawn from diverse sources. The authors' approach to building Semantic Web systems treats the modelling of the Symantic Web like a programming activity.
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"Semantic web for the working ontologist" by Dean Allemang and Jim Hendler. A very clear book that learns you to think about integrating data semantically. Make sure to by the second (or later) edition. http://workingontologist.org/
on “Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?” ↗The second edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist is the best introduction to RDF, OWL, and SPARQL I've seen. https://www.amazon.com/Semantic-Web-Working-Ontologist-Effec...
on “Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?” ↗"Semantic web for the working ontologist" by Dean Allemang and James Hendler might be a good starter if you want to go proper Rdf/RDFS/OWL. TBH I would probably take a look at terminusDB though. They do things a bit differently, and are def.…
on “Representing Heterogeneous Data” ↗…editor called VocBench [0]. UK is making something similar: registry-core [1]. Here in the Netherlands there an active group exchanging RDF user stories [2]. To get a good start with RDF etc, I recommend 'Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist' (second edition or later!) [3]. It explains how inferencing works by doing inferencing with SPARQL queries. RDF is a powerful technology, but takes time to get acquainted with. What I dislike is that…
on “Apache Jena” ↗SEP entry on "Ontology and Information Systems" is a good start: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontology-is/ If the preference is for books, I can recommend "Semantic web for the working ontologist: effective modeling for linked data, RDFS, and OWL". https://search.worldcat.org/title/1193030282 If the preference is for papers, two papers from Deborah McGuinness et al, from early 2000s are still…
on “Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix” ↗