The Semantic Web: Theory and Technology

SERIES EDITORS:
Ying Ding, Indiana University
Paul Groth, Elsevier Labs
FOUNDING EDITOR EMERITUS:
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Whether you call it the Semantic Web, Linked Data, or Web 3.0, a new generation of Web technologies is offering major advances in the evolution of the World Wide Web. As the first generation of this technology transitions out of the laboratory, new research is exploring how the growing Web of Data will change our world. While topics such as ontology-building and logics remain vital, new areas such as the use of semantics in Web search, the linking and use of open data on the Web, and future applications that will be supported by these technologies are becoming important research areas in their own right. Whether they be scientists, engineers or practitioners, Web users increasingly need to understand not just the new technologies of the Semantic Web, but to understand the principles by which those technologies work, and the best practices for assembling systems that integrate the different languages, resources, and functionalities that will be important in keeping the Web the rapidly expanding, and constantly changing, information space that has changed our lives. Topics include: semantic web principles from linked-data to ontology design; key semantic web technologies and algorithms; semantic search and language technologies; the emerging “web of data” and its use in industry, government, and academia; trust, social networking, and collaboration techniques; the economics of semantic web application adoption and use; publishing and science on the semantic web; health care and life sciences on the semantic web.

Editor Bios

	Demystifying OWL for the Enterprise Michael Uschold After a slow incubation period of nearly 15 years, a large and growing number of organizations now have one or more projects using the Semantic Web stack of technologies. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is an essential ingredient in this stack, and t… Publication Date: May, 2018 Read More
	Validating RDF Data Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prudhommeaux, Iovka Boneva, Dimitris Kontokostas This book describes two languages for implementing constraints on RDF data, describing the main features of both Shape Expressions (ShEx) and Shapes Constraints Language (SHACL) from a user perspective, and also offering a comparison of the technolog… Publication Date: October, 2017 Read More
	Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Isabelle Augenstein This book introduces core natural language processing (NLP) technologies to non-experts in an easily accessible way, as a series of building blocks that lead the user to understand key technologies, why they are required, and how to integrate them in… Publication Date: December, 2016 Read More
	Aaron Swartz’s A Programmable Web Aaron Swartz This short work is the first draft of a book manuscript by Aaron Swartz written for the series “Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web” at the invitation of its editor, James Hendler. Unfortunately, the book wasn’t completed before Aaron’s death in J… Publication Date: February, 2013 Read More
	The Epistemology of Intelligent Semantic Web Systems Mathieu d’Aquin, Enrico Motta This book is a reflection of the evolution of the Semantic Web, a young discipline in comparison to other areas of computer science. Despite its youth, the Semantic Web already exhibits an interesting history and evolution. This is a conceptual and … Publication Date: May, 2016 Read More
	Entity Resolution in the Web of Data Vassilis Christophides, Vasilis Efthymiou, Kostas Stefanidis In recent years, several knowledge bases have been built to enable large-scale knowledge sharing, but also an entity-centric Web search, mixing both structured data and text querying. These knowledge bases offer machine-readable descriptions of real… Publication Date: August, 2015 Read More
	Semantic Mining of Social Networks Jie Tang, Juanzi Li Online social networks have already become a bridge connecting our physical daily life with the (web-based) information space. This connection produces a huge volume of data, not only about the information itself, but also about user behavior. The ub… Publication Date: April, 2015 Read More
	Library Linked Data in the Cloud Carol Jean Godby, Shenghui Wang, Jeffrey K. Mixter This book describes OCLC’s contributions to the transformation of the Internet from a web of documents to a Web of Data. The new Web is a growing “cloud” of interconnected resources that identify the things people want to know about when they approa… Publication Date: May, 2015 Read More
	Social Semantic Web Mining Tope Omitola, Sebastian A. Rios, John G. Breslin The past ten years have seen a rapid growth in the numbers of people signing up to use Web-based social networks (hundreds of millions of new members are now joining the main services each year) with a large amount of content being shared on these ne… Publication Date: 01/01/2015 Read More
	Semantic Breakthrough in Drug Discovery Bin Chen, Huijun Wang, Ying Ding, David Wild The current drug development paradigm—sometimes expressed as, “One disease, one target, one drug”—is under question, as relatively few drugs have reached the market in the last two decades. Meanwhile, the research focus of drug discovery is bei… Publication Date: 10/01/2014 Read More
	Semantics in Mobile Sensing Zhixian Yan, Dipanjan Chakraborty The dramatic progress of smartphone technologies has ushered in a new era of mobile sensing, where traditional wearable on-body sensors are being rapidly superseded by various embedded sensors in our smartphones. For example, a typical smartphone tod… Publication Date: 05/01/2014 Read More
	Provenance Luc Moreau, Paul Groth The World Wide Web is now deeply intertwined with our lives, and has become a catalyst for a data deluge, making vast amounts of data available online, at a click of a button. With Web 2.0, users are no longer passive consumers, but active publisher… Publication Date: 09/01/2013 Read More
	Resource-Oriented Architecture Patterns for Webs of Data Brian Sletten The surge of interest in the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) architectural style, the Semantic Web, and Linked Data has resulted in the development of innovative, flexible, and powerful systems that embrace one or more of these compatible tech… Publication Date: 04/01/2013 Read More
	VIVO Katy Borner, Ying Ding, Mike Conlon, Jon Corson-Rikert The world of scholarship is changing rapidly. Increasing demands on scholars, the growing size and complexity of questions and problems to be addressed, and advances in sophistication of data collection, analysis, and presentation require new approac… Publication Date: 01/01/2012 Read More
	Publishing and Using Cultural Heritage Linked Data on the Semantic Web Eero Hyvonen Cultural Heritage (CH) data is syntactically and semantically heterogeneous, multilingual, semantically rich, and highly interlinked. It is produced in a distributed, open fashion by museums, libraries, archives, and media organizations, as well as i… Publication Date: 01/01/2012 Read More
	Incentive-Centric Semantic Web Application Engineering Elena Simperl, Roberta Cuel, Martin Stein While many Web 2.0-inspired approaches to semantic content authoring do acknowledge motivation and incentives as the main drivers of user involvement, the amount of useful human contributions actually available will always remain a scarce resource. C… Publication Date: 01/01/2013 Read More
	Linked Data Tom Heath, Christian Bizer The World Wide Web has enabled the creation of a global information space comprising linked documents. As the Web becomes ever more enmeshed with our daily lives, there is a growing desire for direct access to raw data not currently available on the … Publication Date: 01/01/2011 Read More