The Semantic Web

Books

Cruz, Isabel F., et al. Proceedings of SWWS'01: The First Semantic Web Working Symposium. Stanford, 2001. Papers from the Semantic Web Workshop at Stanford in 2001.

Fensel, Dieter, et al. Spinning the Semantic Web. MIT Press, 2003. A series of articles by many of the guiding lights on the Semantic Web vision.

Geroimenko, Vladimir, Chen, Chaomei (editors). Visualizing the Semantic Web. Springer-Verlag, 2003. A collection of articles on advanced 3D and other tools for visualizing complex structures such as the ontologies on which the Semantic Web is to be built.

Hjelm, Johan. Creating the Semantic Web with RDF. New York: Wiley Computer Publishing, 2001. One of the few books available on RDF.

Magazine and Web Articles

Allen, Joshua. 3-Jul-02. Making a Semantic Web. Web article: http://www.netcrucible.com/semantic.html. Semantic Web.

Bechhofer, Sean, et al. 28-Nov-00. An Informal Description of Standard OIL and Instance OIL. Web article: http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/. Ontology inference layer.

Beckett, David. 6-Sep-01. Refactoring RDF/XML Syntax. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TR/Rdf-syntax-grammar/.

Berners-Lee, Tim. 1-Sep-98. Web Architecture from 50,000 ft. Web article: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html.

Berners-Lee, Tim. 1-Sep-98. Semantic Web Road Map. Web article: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html. Semantic Web.

Berners-Lee, Tim. 1999. Axioms of Web Architecture: The Meaning of a Document. Web article: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Meaning.html. Semantic Web.

Berners-Lee, Tim, et al. 1-May-01. The Semantic Web. Scientific American, pp 35–43. Available at http://www.sciam.com The classic mainstream article on the Semantic Web.

Berners-Lee, Tim, Miller, Eric. 11-Nov-02. The Semantic Web Lifts off. Web article: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/berners-lee.html. Semantic Web.

Bray, Tim. 3-Jul-02. What is RDF? Web article: http://www.xml.com/1pt/a/2001/01/24/rdf.html.

Brickley, Dan, Guha, R. V. 27-Mar-00. Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema Specification 1.0. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-rdf-schema-20000327/.

Cherry, Steven M. 2-Sep-02. Weaving a Web of Ideas. IEEE Spectrum.

Dumbill, Edd. 3-Jul-02. The Semantic Web: A Primer. Web article: http://www.xml.com/1pt/a/2000/11/01/semanticweb/index.html. Semantic Web.

Ernst, Johannes. 2-Jul-02. Semantic Web Business Special Interest Group. Web article: http://business.semanticweb.org. People interested in promoting the use of the Semantic Web in business.

Ewalt, David E. 14-Oct-02. Next Web. Information Week, pp 35–44. Available at http://www.informationweek.com. Nice introduction to the Semantic Web.

Fillies, Christian. 18-Aug-02. SemTalk: A RDFS Editor for Visio 2000. Web article: http://www.semtalk.com/pub/swws.htm. RDF.

Frauenfelder, Mark. 1-Nov-02. A Smarter Web. Web article: http://www.techreview.com/magazine/nov01/frauenfelder.asp. Semantic Web.

Gil, Yolanda, Ratnakar, Varun. 11-Nov-02. Markup Languages: Comparison and Examples. Web article: http://trellis.semanticweb.org/expect/web/semanticweb/comparison.html.

Hayes, Patrick. 25-Sep-01. RDF Model Theory. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-struct-vocab/. RDF.

Heflin, Jeff, Hendler, James. 22-Jun-05. Semantic Interoperability on the Web. Web article: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/pubs/extreme2000.pdf. Excellent article on how the Semantic Web is intended to work.

Helflin, Jeffrey Douglas. 23-Jun-05. Towards the Semantic Web: Knowledge Representation in a Dynamic, Distributed Environment. Abstract. Available at http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~heflin/pubs/heflin-thesis-orig.pdf.

Hendler, James, Parsia, Bijan. 2-Oct-02. XML and the Semantic Web. XML Journal, pp 30–34. Available at http://www.xml-journal.com.

Horrocks, I. 29-Nov-00. A Denotational Semantics for Standard OIL and Instance Oil. Web article: http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/downl/semantics.pdf. Ontology interchange layer.

Horrocks, I. 9-Dec-01. Commands. Web page: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/`horrocks/DAML-OIL/daml-oil.rdf.

Kannan, Robert, et al. 12-Nov-02. Semantic Web for Collaborative Software Processes. Web article: http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/academic/dna/weti96ff.htm. Semantic Web.

Klyne, Graham, et al. 15-Mar-01. Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-struct-vocab/.

Koivunes, Marja-Riitta. 12-Dec-01. SW Principles 3: Web of Trust. Web page: http://www.w3.org/Talks/2001/1102-semweb-fin/slide14-0.html.

Lassila, Ora, Swick, Ralph R. 22-Feb-99. Resource Description Framework (RDF): Model and Syntax Specification. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/. RDF.

McBride, Brian. 8-Nov-02. Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20021108/. RDF.

McBride, Brian. 24-Nov-02. RDF Semantics. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TF/rdf-mt/.

Ogbuji, Uche. 2-Jun-02. The Language of the Semantic Web. New Architect Magazine, pp 30–33. Available at http://www.newarchitectmag.com. Good overview of RDF.

Patel, Manjula. Harvesting RDF. Metadata PowerPoint presentation: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/.

Robie, Jonathan. The Syntactic Web. Web article: http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml2001/papers/html/03-01-04.html. Makes the case that XML by itself is not semantic.

Uschold, Michael. Where are the Semantic in the Semantic Web? Web article: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/events/Uschold-talk.htm. Great material on some key semantic distinctions, such as the explicit/tacit dichotomy.

Weinberger, David. 14-Jun-02. The Semantic Argument. Web article: http://www.darwinmag.com/read/swiftkick/column.html?ArtilcleID=421.