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A Web of Data: Toward the Idea of the Semantic Web

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 3 –21

[If you are reading this book, chances are that you are a software engineer who makes a living by developing applications on the Web—or, more precisely, on the Web that we currently have.]

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The Building Block for the Semantic Web: RDF

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 23 –95

[This chapter is probably the most important chapter in this whole book: it covers the Resource Description Framework (RDF) in detail; RDF is the building block for the Semantic Web. A solid understanding of RDF provides the key to the whole technical world that defines the foundation of the...

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Other RDF-Related Technologies: Microformats, RDFa and GRDDL

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 97 –119

[So far at this point, we have learned the concept of the Semantic Web, and we have learned RDF. Let us think about these two for a moment.]

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RDFS and Ontology

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 121 –167

[Even after you have read the previous two chapters carefully, you probably still have lots of unanswered questions. This chapter is a natural continuation of Chaps. 2 and 3, especially Chap. 2. After reading this chapter, you should have answers to most of your questions.]

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OWL: Web Ontology Language

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 169 –263

[This chapter is a natural extension of Chap. 4. As a key technical component in the world of the Semantic Web, the Web Ontology Language OWL is the most popular language to use when creating ontologies. In this chapter, we cover OWL in great detail, and after finishing this chapter, you will be...

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SPARQL: Querying the Semantic Web

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 265 –353

[This chapter covers SPARQL, the last core component of the Semantic Web. With SPARQL, you will be able to locate specific information on the machine-readable Web, and the Web can therefore be viewed as a gigantic database, as many of us have been dreaming about.]

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FOAF: Friend of a Friend

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 357 –382

[At this point, we have learned the major technical components for the Semantic Web, and it is time for us to take a look at some real-world examples. Starting from Friend of a Friend (FOAF) is a good choice since it is simple and easy to understand, yet it does tell us a lot about what the...

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DBpedia

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 383 –414

[At the end of Chap. 7, we discussed the topic of semantic markup. More specifically, it is possible to automatically generate markup documents for some Web content, especially when there is preexisting structured information contained in these content.]

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Linked Open Data

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 415 –473

[In Chap. 8, we studied the DBpedia project, where semantic documents are automatically generated. As we discussed in Chap. 7, besides annotating the pages manually or generating the markup documents automatically, there is indeed another solution: to create a machine-readable Web all from scratch.]

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schema.org and Semantic Markup

Yu, Liyang

Pages: 475 –515

[Since schema.org is a joint effort by Google, Bing and Yahoo!, it has been viewed as a signal of mainstream support for the idea of the Semantic Web. As a well-accepted ontology for common things in life, since its first release in June 2011, it has been constantly making a significant...

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