Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web FROM THE PUBLISHER
A complex series of extensions to the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web's purpose is to make data and services far more accessible to computers and far more useful for people than the web we know today. Written for developers and programmers, this guide seeks to acquaint these users with the basic technologies and their interrelations that will be likely to play key roles in the Semantic Web. Covered are key technology areas such as knowledge modeling (RDF, Topic Maps), agents (DAML, FIPA), and Trust and Authentication. A basic conceptual approach is taken so that developers and programmers with a wide range of backgrounds and interests come to understand the essential nature of these areas, how they work, and something about some specific technologies that are being used or proposed. Important points are illustrated with diagrams and code fragments to help develop a familiarity with these Semantic Web initiatives.
Author Biography: Thomas B. Passin is principal systems engineer at Mitretek Systems, a nonprofit systems and information engineering firm. He has been involved in data modeling and created several complex database-backed web sites and has also became engaged in a range of conceptual modeling approaches and graphical modeling technologies. He was a key member of a team that developed several demonstration XML-based web service applications, and worked on creating XML versions of draft standards originally written in ASN.1. He is the coauthor of Signal Processing in C. He lives in Reston, Virginia.
SYNOPSIS
As a systems engineer at a nonprofit firm in Reston, Virginia, Passin became fascinated with graphical ways to represent formal logic statements in natural language and their relevance to the Web. He defines the semantic Web as an integrated concept of how computers, humans, and the Web can work together; and introduces systems for representing data and metadata (e.g. topic maps), and how they relate to Web searches. These concepts are applied in two cases studies. Distributed in the US and Canada by Independent Publishers Group. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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