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Semantic Web technology is already changing how we interact with data on the Web. By connecting random information on the Internet in new ways, Web 3.0, as it is sometimes called, represents an exciting online evolution.

Whether you’re a consumer doing research online, a business owner who wants to offer your customers the most useful Web site, or an IT manager eager to understand Semantic Web solutions, Semantic Web For Dummies is the place to start! It will help you:

Know how the typical Internet user will recognize the effects of the Semantic Web
Explore all the benefits the data Web offers to businesses and decide whether it’s right for your business
Make sense of the technology and identify applications for it
See how the Semantic Web is about data while the “old” Internet was about documents
Tour the architectures, strategies, and standards involved in Semantic Web technology
Learn a bit about the languages that make it all work: Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Discover the variety of information-based jobs that could become available in a data-driven economy

You’ll also find a quick primer on tech specifications, some key priorities for CIOs, and tools to help you sort the hype from the reality. There are case studies of early Semantic Web successes and a list of common myths you may encounter. Whether you’re incorporating the Semantic Web in the workplace or using it at home, Semantic Web For Dummies will help you define, develop, implement, and use Web 3.0.

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Get up to speed on the most exciting evolution in the history of the Internet

Meet the Web of tomorrow — today! The Semantic Web completely changes how we interact with data in the vastness of the Internet. So whether you're a consumer doing research online, a business owner who wants to offer your customers the most useful Web site, or an IT manager eager to understand Semantic Web solutions, this book is the place to start!

What's Web 3.0? — explore how the Internet has evolved and where it's going
Change is coming — know how the typical Internet user will recognize the effects of the Semantic Web
Data or documents? — see how the Semantic Web is about data while the "old" Internet was about documents
It's business — explore the data Web's many benefits to businesses
Speak the language — get into the languages that make it all work: Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Jobs, jobs, jobs — sneak a peek at the variety of information workers that will be needed in our data-driven economy
Some geeky stuff — tour the architectures, strategies, and standards involved in Semantic Web technology
Already there — look at existing Semantic Web sites

Open the book and find:

What defines Web 3.0
A quick primer on tech specifications
How business will change as the Semantic Web takes hold
Ten common Semantic Web myths
How to sort the hype from the reality
Interesting case studies of early Semantic Web successes
Key priorities for CIOs
How familiar technologies fit with the Semantic Web

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Product Details

Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: For Dummies (March 23, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470396792
ISBN-13: 978-0470396797
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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linked data, master data management, airport model, primary key, referent metadata, entailment levels, problem with metadata, graph data model, domain metadata, business software systems, typed literals, data steward, enterprise information integration, federated data, inferred data, data vocabularies, metadata language, modeling formats, semantic technology, corporate librarians, weak fit, graph database, business intelligence systems, giant database, unstructured content

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Semantic Web, The Problem, Dublin Core, Thomson Reuters, Speaking the Web Ontology Language, Using the Resource Description Framework, The Data Web, Unified Modeling Language, Essential Vendor Implementations, San Francisco, Dow Jones, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Technology Products, World Wide Web Consortium, Natural Language Processing, John Wiley Book, Jeffrey Pollock, The Rise of the Information Worker, Linking Open Data, Scalable Architectures, The Part of Tens, Assessment Strategies, Jeff's Homepage, Gleaning Resource Descriptions, Look Forward

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for anybody interested in the Future of the Web, March 27, 2009

By	Joel Natividad (Secaucus, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Semantic Web is the logical next step in the evolution of the ENTIRE Web, and this book makes a strong case why its not all hype and a pipe-dream as some detractors would put it.

And Jeff Pollock knows what he's talking about. A well-known figure in Semantic Web circles, he also manages Fusion - Oracle's middleware solution for the enterprise.

In it, he clearly explains what's wrong with the current state of the Web, and how we manage and produce data in general. He shows how Semantic technologies can clear the way for computers and systems not only in helping us produce (and drown ourselves) in a sea of data, but actually help us consume and find information in it.

Despite the "for Dummies" pejorative, the text is actually quite useful even for veteran Semantic Web followers. It gives a grand (though necessarily abbreviated) tour of all the foundation standards and technologies in the context of their applications in everyday life and behind the corporate firewall.

For a corporate practitioner like myself that has long struggled with abstract, academic examples, the book is a long-awaited addition that will help me evangelize the promise of "the grand database in the sky".

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