Ontology and the Semantic Web

Macgregor, George (2009) Ontology and the Semantic Web. [Review]

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/00242530910936998

Abstract

Ontology and the Semantic Web is an attempt to bring together developments in philosophy, artificial intelligence, information systems and the Semantic Web in order to formalise a "collection of functional requirements for ontology development". Author Robert M. Colomb takes the reader through nine chapters laying the theoretical groundwork of ontology, before exploring in detail a variety of ontology representation languages. During his theoretical exposition, Colomb does a sterling job at deconstructing complex ontological concepts (brute and institutional facts, subclasses and sub‐ properties, complex objects, formal upper ontologies, etc.), but also those concepts that might be unfamiliar to the reader, such as data interoperability and semantic heterogeneity. Each of these chapters is expertly annotated with examples and illustrated with Unified Modelling Language graphical notation.

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Item type:	Review
ID code:	59805
Dates:	Date Event 27 February 2009 Published
Keywords:	ontology, computer languages, indexing, information retrieval, Internet, interoperability, Resource Description Framework (RDF), Electronic computers. Computer science, Library Science. Information Science, Library and Information Sciences, Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Subjects:	Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Library Science. Information Science
Department:	Professional Services > Information Services
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	14 Feb 2017 13:11
Last modified:	24 Jan 2021 03:14
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/59805

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