Semantic Web Programming

The next major advance in the Web'Web 3.0'will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet. Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web. The companion Web site features full code, as well as a reference section, a FAQ section, a discussion forum, and a semantic blog. Read more... Abstract: The next major advance in the Web'Web 3.0'will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet. Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web. The companion Web site features full code, as well as a reference section, a FAQ section, a discussion forum, and a semantic blog Content: ""Title Page"" ""Copyright"" ""Dedication"" ""About the Authors"" ""About The Technical Editors"" ""Credits"" ""Acknowledgments"" ""Foreword"" ""Introduction"" ""Overview of the Book and Technology"" ""How This Book Is Organized"" ""Who Should Read This Book"" ""Tools You Will Need"" ""What's on the Website"" ""Summary (From Here, Up Next, and So On)"" ""Part I: Introducing Semantic Web Programming"" ""Chapter 1: Preparing to Program a Semantic Web of Data"" ""Defining the Semantic Web"" ""Identifying the Major Programming Components"" ""Determining Impacts on Programming"" ""Avoiding the Roadblocks, Myths, and Hype""""Understanding Semantic Web Origins"" ""Exploring Semantic Web Examples"" ""Summary and Onward"" ""Chapter 2: Hello Semantic Web World"" ""Setting Up Your Semantic Web Development Environment"" ""Programming the Hello Semantic Web World Application"" ""Summary"" ""Part II: Foundations of Semantic Web Programming"" ""Chapter 3: Modeling Information"" ""Modeling Information in Software"" ""The Semantic Web Information Model: The Resource Description Framework (RDF)"" ""Exchanging Information with RDF"" ""Summary"" ""Chapter 4: Incorporating Semantics""""Semantics on the Web"" ""Introduction to Ontologies"" ""Elements of an Ontology"" ""Summary"" ""Chapter 5: Modeling Knowledge in the Real World"" ""Exploring the Components of the Semantic Web"" ""Exploring the Profiles of OWL"" ""Demonstrating OWL Inference"" ""Working with Ontologies"" ""Summary"" ""Chapter 6: Discovering Information"" ""Navigating the Semantic Web"" ""Searching the Semantic Web"" ""Querying the Semantic Web"" ""Summary"" ""Chapter 7: Adding Rules"" ""What Are Rules?"" ""Reasons for Rules"" ""Rule Languages"" ""SWRL Essentials""""Jena Rules"" ""Rule Interchange Format"" ""Summary"" ""Part III: Building Semantic Web Applications"" ""Chapter 8: Applying a Programming Framework"" ""Framing the Semantic Web"" ""The Jena Semantic Web Framework"" ""Programming with Jena"" ""Common App Overview: FriendTracker"" ""Summary"" ""Chapter 9: Combining Information"" ""Combining Information"" ""Exposing XML-Based Web Services as RDF"" ""Exposing Relational Databases as RDF"" ""Exposing Other Sources of Data"" ""Summary"" ""Chapter 10: Aligning Information"" ""Data Source, Domain, and Application Ontologies""""Aligning Ontologies"" ""FriendTracker"" ""Record Linkage"" ""Summary"" ""Chapter 11: Sharing Information"" ""Microformats"" ""eRDF"" ""RDFa"" ""Tools and Frameworks"" ""FriendTracker in RDFa"" ""Summary"" ""Part IV: Expanding Semantic Web Programming"" ""Chapter 12: Developing and Using Semantic Services"" ""Background"" ""Implementing Semantic Services"" ""Semantic Markup for Web Services"" ""Web Service Modeling Ontology"" ""Semantic Annotations for WSDL"" ""Summary"" ""Chapter 13: Managing Space and Time"" A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. Praise for Dan Simmons and Hyperion “Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish.”—The Washington Post Book World “An unfailingly inventive narrative... generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed.”—The New York Times Book Review “Simmons's own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry.”—The Denver Post “An essential part of any science fiction collection.”—Booklist On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.

Hyperion is the tale of seven people who make a pilgrimmage to a terrifying creature called the Shrike in an attempt to save mankind. Stunningly written and beautifully crafted, Simmons's Hyperion resonates with technical achievement and the excitement and wonder found only in the best SF. Reissue.

In the 29th century, the Hegemony of Man comprises hundreds of planets connected by farcaster portals. The Hegemony maintains an uneasy alliance with the TechnoCore, a civilisation of AIs. Modified humans known as Ousters live in space stations between stars and are engaged in conflict with the Hegemony. Numerous "Outback" planets have no farcasters and cannot be accessed without incurring significant time dilation. One of these planets is Hyperion, home to structures known as the Time Tombs, which are moving backwards in time and guarded by a legendary creature known as the Shrike. On the eve of an Ouster invasion of Hyperion, a final pilgrimage to the Time Tombs has been organized. The pilgrims decide that they will each tell their tale of how they were chosen for the pilgrimage.

The next major advance in the Web-Web 3.0-will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet. Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web. The companion Web site features full code, as well as a reference section, a FAQ section, a discussion forum, and a semantic blog.

Annotation The next major advance in the Web Web 3.0 will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet. Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web. The companion Web site features full code, as well as a reference section, a FAQ section, a discussion forum, and a semantic blog The Consul awoke with the peculiar headache, dry throat, and sense of having forgotten a thousand dreams which only periods in cryogenic fugue could bring. A pilgrimage to the realm of the Shrike, a part-god/part-killing machine, provides the travellers the forum to tell their incredible stories.