Semantic Web Company

Found this survey on an O’Reilly blogpost. Some questions are quite trivial but PEW also asks about the impact of the Semantic Web in 2020.

Take your chance: If you’d like to take the survey, you can currently visit http://www.facebook.com/l/c6596;survey.confirmit.com/wix2/p1075078513.aspx and enter PIN 2000.

Holding the printed version of our new book in hand – that’s quite a sense of achievement: Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009. And I think we made a difference with this book, since it not only provides intuitive introductions to RDF(S), OWL 1+2, RIF, SPARQL, but also an in-depth treatment of the formal semantics (including tableau algorithms) – plus applications, tools, a bit on ontology engineering, OWL+Rules, conjunctive queries, and exercises+solutions. Ready-to-use for self-study or teaching. We will also collect slides on the book webpage.

Since our German book has become a widely used textbook for university courses in the German speaking countries, we expect no less from the new book: The didactic rationale is basically unchanged, but we cover much more material, and have obviously brought the contents up to date.

And we’ve already found a first typo: The heading to Section 1.4 reads: “Semanic Web Technologies.” Is that a Freudian Slip?

Pascal Hitzler

OWL 2, the currently ongoing revision of the Web Ontology Language, has become a W3C Candidate Recommendation.  This means that there is a call for implementations now, and if they meet the requirements, it is intended that the documents proceed to Proposed Recommendation status – just one step away from being a full W3C Recommendation.

The general entry point is the Document Overview. For OWL 2 in a nutshell, see the Primer. Or have a look at our ESWC09 tutorial (Part 1).

Pascal Hitzler