
Contents
1 The Quest for Semantics 1
1.1 Building Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Calculating with Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Exchanging Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.4 Semanic Web Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.5 Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
I Resource Description Language RDF 17
2 Simple Ontologies in RDF and RDF Schema 19
2.1 Introduction to RDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2 Syntax for RDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.3 Advanced Features . . . . . . . . .