Created: August 5, 2009 Updated: September 25, 2009 BOOKS RELATED TO THE SEMANTIC WEB (in descending order per Amazon.com's ratings, which are based on a 5-point scale) ---------- 5.0 DIRECTLY RELATED: Building Trustworthy Semantic Webs, by Bhavani Thuraisingham Semantic Web For Dummies, by Jeffrey T. Pollock Semantic Web Programming, by John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace, Andrew Perez-Lopez Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems, by John Davies, Rudi Studer, Paul Warren INDIRECTLY RELATED: Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions, by Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher Enterprise Ontology: Theory and Methodology, by Jan L.G. Dietz Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, by Ronald Brachman, Hector Levesque Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data, by Soumen Chakrabarti Model Driven Architecture and Ontology Development, by Dragan Gasevic Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology, by Coral Calero, Francisco Ruiz, Mario Piattini Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web, by Gene Smith Understanding Agent Systems, by Mark D'Inverno ---------- 4.5 DIRECTLY RELATED: Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web, by Thomas B. Passin Intelligent Learning Infrastructure for Knowledge Intensive Organizations: A Semantic Web Perspective, by Ambjorn Naeve, Miltiadis Lytras Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services, by Liyang Yu Programming the Semantic Web, by Toby Segaran Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, by Dean Allemang A Semantic Web Primer, First Edition, by Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen INDIRECTLY RELATED: Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository: A Full Lifecycle Guide, by David Marco Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals, by Krishna Sankar, Susan A. Bouchard Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0, by John Allsopp Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications, by Toby Segaran RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby, David Heinemeier Hansson ---------- 4.0 DIRECTLY RELATED: Developing Semantic Web Services, by H. Peter Alesso, Craig F. Smith Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web, by Elie Sanchez OWL: Representing Information Using the Web Ontology Language, by Lee W. Lacy Semantic Web: Concepts, Technologies and Applications, by K.K. Breitman The Semantic Web: Semantics for Data and Services on the Web, by Vipul Kashyap, Christoph Bussler, Matthew Moran Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications, by Rudi Studer, Stephan Grimm, Andreas Abecker Social Networks and the Semantic Web, by Peter Mika Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential, by Dieter Fensel Visualizing the Semantic Web, by Vladimir Geroimenko INDIRECTLY RELATED: Building Enterprise Taxonomies, by Darin L. Stewart HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling, by Paul Haine Thinking on the Web: Berners-Lee, Gödel and Turing, by H. Peter Alesso, Craig F. Smith Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, by Tim Berners-Lee ---------- 3.5 DIRECTLY RELATED: Ontological Engineering: with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web. First Edition, by Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Oscar Corcho, Mariano Fernandez-Lopez The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management, by Michael C. Daconta, Leo J. Obrst, Kevin T. Smith A Semantic Web Primer, 2nd Edition, by Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen XML Databases and the Semantic Web, by Bhavani Thuraisingham INDIRECTLY RELATED: Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, by Steve Graham Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels, Repositories, XML, and Enterprise Portals to Generate Information on Demand, by Adrienne Tannenbaum Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce, by Dieter Fensel Practical RDF, by Shelley Powers Principles of Data Mining, by David J. Hand Web 2.0 Architectures: What entrepreneurs and information architects need to know, by James Governor, Dion Hinchcliffe, Duane Nickull ---------- 3.0 DIRECTLY RELATED: Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management, by John Davies ---------- 2.5 DIRECTLY RELATED: Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web, by Alexander Maedche INDIRECTLY RELATED: Designing XML Databases, by Mark Graves ---------- 1.5 DIRECTLY RELATED: Creating the Semantic Web with RDF: Professional Developer's Guide, by Johan Hjelm ---------- UNRATED DIRECTLY RELATED: Adaptive and Personalized Semantic Web, by Spiros Sirmakessis Advances in Web Semantics I: Ontologies, Web Services and Applied Semantic Web, by Tharam Dillon, Elizabeth Chang, Robert Meersman, Katia Sycara Agency and the Semantic Web, by Christopher Walton Answer Set Programming for the Semantic Web, by Roman Schindlauer Building an Intelligent Web: Thoery and Practice, by Rajendra Akerkar Canadian Semantic Web, by Mamadou Tadiou Koné, Daniel Lemire CASCOM: Intelligent Service Coordination in the Semantic Web, by Michael Schumacher, Heikki Helin, Heiko Schuldt Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology, by Dieter Fensel, Holger Lausen, Axel Polleres, Jos de Bruijn, Michael Stollberg, Dumitru Roman, John Domingue Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, by Pascal Hitzler, Sebastian Rudolph, Markus Kroetzsch Foundations of the Semantic Web: Xml, Rdf & Ontology, by R. Akerkar The fractal nature of the semantic web.: An article from: AI Magazine, by Tim Berners-Lee, Lalana Kagal The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society, by Arno Scharl, Klaus Tochtermann Implementing Semantic Web Services: The SESA Framework, by Dieter Fensel, Mick Kerrigan, Michal Zaremba Industrial Applications of Semantic Web: Proceedings of the 1st International IFIP/WG12.5 Working Conference on Industrial Applications of Semantic Web, by Max Bramer, Vagan Terziyan Information Sharing on the Semantic Web, by Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen Intelligent Information Integration for the Semantic Web, by Ubbo Visser Internet Based Workflow Management: Towards a Semantic Web, by Dan C. Marinescu Law and the Semantic Web: Legal Ontologies, Methodologies, Legal Information Retrieval, and Applications, by Richard Benjamins, Pompeu Casanovas, Joost Breuker, Aldo Gangemi The Logic of Knowledge Bases, by Hector J. Levesque Modeling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Language, by Jos de Bruijn, Dieter Fensel, Mick Kerrigan, and Uwe Keller Multimedia Content and the Semantic Web: Standards, Methods and Tools, by Giorgos Stamou, Stefanos Kollias Ontology and the Semantic Web: Volume 156 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, by R.M. Colomb Ontology Management: Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, and Business Applications, by Martin Hepp, Pieter De Leenheer, Aldo de Moor, York Sure An Ontology of Time: Representing Complex Temporal Phenomena for the Semantic Web and Natural Language, by Feng Pan Ontology translation for interoperability among semantic web services.: An article from: AI Magazine, by Mark H. Burstein, Drew V. McDermott Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web: Third International Workshop, RuleML 2004, Hiroshima, Japan, November 8, 2004, Proceedings, by Grigoris Antoniou, Harold Boley Security in the Semantic Web using OWL, by G. Denker, L. Kagal, T. Finin Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management, Knowledge Discovery, and Human Language Technologies, by John Davies, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic Semantic Management of Middleware, by Daniel Oberle The Semantic Web: 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2008, Bangkok, Thailand, December 8-11, 2008. Proceedings, by John Domingue, Chutiporn Anutariya Semantic Web and Databases: Second International Workshop, SWDB 2004, Toronto, Canada, August 29-30, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, by Christoph Bussler, Val Tannen, Irini Fundulaki Semantic Web and Education, by Vladan Devedzic Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer: Decentralized Management and Exchange of Knowledge and Information, by Steffen Staab, Heiner Stuckenschmidt The Semantic Web ASWC 2006: First Asian Semantic Web Conference, Beijing, China, September 3-7, 2006, Proceedings, by Riichiro Mizoguchi, Zhongzhi Shi, Fausto Giunchiglia Semantic Web-Based Information Systems: State-of-the-Art Applications, by Amit Sheth Semantic Web - Concepts and Applications Semantic Web: A Field Guide, by Thomas B Passin Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications, by Roberto Garcia Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society, by Jorge Cardoso, Miltiadis Lytras Semantic Web: Grundlagen, by Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, York Sure [in German] The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006: 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006, Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006, Proceedings, by Isabel Cruz, Stefan Decker, Dean Allemang, Chris Preist Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases: VLDB Workshop, SWDB-ODBIS 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, by Vassilis Christophides, Martine Collard, Claudio Gutierrez The Semantic Web: Real-World Applications from Industry, by Jorge Cardoso, Martin Hepp, Miltiadis D. Lytras The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 4th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, June 3-7, 2007, Proceedings, by Enrico Franconi, Michael Kifer, Wolfgang May The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 6th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2009 Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31 June 4, 2009 Proceedings, by Lora Aroyo, Paolo Traverso, Fabio Ciravegna, Philipp Cimiano The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: First European Semantic Web Symposium, ESWS 2004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 10-12, 2004, Proceedings, by John Davies, Dieter Fensel, Christoph Bussler, Rudi Studer Semantic Web: Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences, by Christopher J.O. Baker, Kei-Hoi Cheung Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications, by Jorge Cardoso Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation, by A. F. Salam, A. F. Salam, Jason R. Stevens Semantic Web: Wege zur vernetzten Wissensgesellschaft, by Tassilo Pellegrini, Andreas Blumauer [in German] The Social Semantic Web, by John G. Breslin, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker Social Semantic Web: Web 2.0 - Was nun?, by Andreas Blumauer, Tassilo Pellegrini [in German] Social Web Evolution: Integrating Semantic Applications and Web 2.0 Technologies, by Miltiadis D. Lytras, Patricia Ordonez de Pablos Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web, by Zongmin Ma Web 2.0 & Semantic Web, by Vladan Devedzic, Dragan Gasevic Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web: First European Web Mining Forum, EWMF 2003, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22, 2003, by Bettina Berendt, Andreas Hotho, Dunja Mladenic, Maarten van Someren Web Semantics Ontology, by David Taniar, Johanna Wenny Rahayu