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Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
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Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies

by Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krotzsch, Sebastian Rudolph
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
14h 8m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
Chapter 1
The Quest for Semantics
In this chapter, we explain the basic motivations and ideas underlying Se-
mantic Web technologies as presented in this book, along with some of the
history of these ideas. This gentle introduction prepares the stage f or the
more technical parts that are covered in subsequent chapters.
From its very beginnings, the development of Semantic Web technologies
has been closely related to the World Wide Web. This is is not surprising,
given that the inventor of the WWW Sir Tim Berners-Lee has originally
coined the term “Semantic Web” and has inspired much research in this area.
Important goals of the approaches that
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