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Practical RDF Solving Problems with the Resource Description Framework

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ISBN-10: 0596002637

ISBN-13: 9780596002633

Edition: 2003

Authors: Shelley Powers

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The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web--anything from library catalogs and worldwide directories to bioinformatics, Mozilla internal data structures, and knowledge bases for artificial intelligence projects. RDF provides a consistent framework and syntax for describing and querying data, making it possible to share website descriptions more easily. RDF's capabilities, however, have long been shrouded by its reputation for complexity and a difficult family of specifications. "Practical RDF breaks through this reputation with immediate and solvable problems to help you understand, master, and implement RDF solutions. …    
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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/12/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.93" wide x 9.17" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Shelley Powers is an independent contractor, currently living in St. Louis, who specializes in technology architecture and software development. She's authored several computer books, including Developing ASP Components, Unix Power Tools 3rd edition, Essential Blogging, and Practical RDF. In addition, Shelley has also written several articles related primarily to web technology, many for O'Reilly. Shelley's web site network is at http://burningbird.net , and her weblog is Burningbird, at http://weblog.burningbird.net .

Preface
RDF: An Introduction
The Semantic Web and RDF: A Brief History
The Specifications
When to Use and Not Use RDF
Some Uses of RDF/XML
Related Technologies
Going Forward
RDF: Heart and Soul
The Search for Knowledge
The RDF Triple
The Basic RDF Data Model and the RDF Graph
URIs
RDF Serialization: N3 and N-Triples
Talking RDF: Lingo and Vocabulary
The Basic Elements Within the RDF/XML Syntax
Serializing RDF to XML
RDF Blank Nodes
URI References
Representing Structured Data with rdf:value
The rdf:type Property
RDF/XML Shortcuts
More on RDF Data Types
RDF/XML: Separate Documents or Embedded Blocks
Specialized RDF Relationships: Reification, Containers, and Collections
Containers
Collections
Reification: The RDF Big Ugly
Important Concepts from the W3C RDF Vocabulary/Schema
RDF Vocabulary: Describing the Data
Core RDF Schema Elements
Refining RDF Vocabularies with Constraints
RDF Schema Alternatives
Creating an RDF Vocabulary
How RDF Vocabularies Differ from XML Vocabularies
Defining the Vocabulary: Business and Scope
Defining the Vocabulary: Elements
Formalizing the Vocabulary with RDFS
Integrating the Dublin Core
Editing, Parsing, and Browsing RDF/XML
BrownSauce
Parsers
Editors
Jena: RDF in Java
Overview of the Classes
Creating and Serializing an RDF Model
Parsing and Querying an RDF Document
In-Memory Versus Persistent Model Storage
RDF and Perl, PHP, and Python
RDF/XML and Perl
RDF API for PHP
RDF and Python: RDFLib
Querying RDF: RDF as Data
RDF and the Relational Data Model
Roots: rdfDB QL
Inkling and SquishQL
RDQL
Sesame
A Brief Look at Additional RDF Application Environments
RDF and C#
Wilbur--RDF API CLOS
Overview of Redland--a Multilanguage-Based RDF Framework
Redfoot
Ontologies: RDF Business Models
Why Ontology?
Brief History of the Ontology Movement
OWL Use Cases and Requirements
OWL Specifications
Basic Constructs of OWL
Bits of Knowledge: More Complex OWL Constructs
The Complementary Nature of RDF and OWL
Ontology Tools: Editors
Subscription and Aggregation with RSS
RSS: Quick History
RSS 1.0: A Quick Introduction
A Detailed Look at the Specification
Extending the Specification Through Modules
The RSS Modules
RSS Aggregators
Creating Your Own RSS Content
Build Your Own RSS Consumer
Merging RDF/RSS Files
A World of Uses: Noncommercial Applications Based on RDF
Mozilla
Creative Commons License
MIT's DSpace System Documentation
FOAF: Friend-of-a-Friend
A World of Uses: Commercial Uses of RDF/XML
Chandler: RDF Within an Open Source PIM
RDF Gateway, a Commercial RDF Database
Siderean Software's Seamark
Plugged In Software's Tucana Knowledge Store
RDF and Adobe: XMP
What's It All Mean?
Index