Handbook Of Semantic Web Technologies, Domingue, Fensel, Hendler, Springer, 2011.pdf

Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies
John Domingue, Dieter Fensel, James A. Hendler (Eds.)
Handbook of
Semantic Web
Technologies
With 203 Figures and 96 Tables
Editors
John Domingue
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
UK
Dieter Fensel
STI Innsbruck
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstraße 21a
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
James A. Hendler
Department puter Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
USA
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Foreword
The Semantic munity e a long way since its beginnings in the late 1990s
and early part of the twenty-first century. There are obviously many ways of categorizing
the progress of the topic; however, one easy fit is through thre