SEMANTIC WEB for the WORKING ONTOLOGIST cuts through the hype around the Semantic Web, providing a simple, feasible, coherent story of a technology that provides real business value today. Authors Allemang and Hendler describe how the Semantic Web builds on the same principles that powered the success of Wikipedia, and of the World Wide Web itself.

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News

 

2009 March.  Okay, I am a bit behind the times.  Panlibus magazine has a review of Working Ontologist.  Check out page 19.

2009 Feb 27.  I have received a number of emails showing interest in a Russian edition of Working Ontologist.  Thanks to everyone who has sent me letters of support - Morgan-Kaufmann is exploring possibilities with a Russian publisher to produce a translation.  We'll keep our fingers crossed!  Of course, anyone who knows the publishing industry knows that such a project typically takes a year to a year and a half before the book is actually available.  So do keep your fingers crossed, but don't hold your breath!

2009 Feb.  Fig 5.1 now listed on the Errata page.

2009 Jan.  The Korean edition is available online from a number of booksellers - the cheapest seems to be Naver.

2009 Jan. Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist is scheduled to go into second printing!  Thanks to everyone who submitted errata here and in email.  We're going through all the errors, collating them for the second printing.  Thanks for helping us improve the book!

2008 Nov 18 Scitech Books, Korea, with cooperation from TopQuadrant Korea, announces the upcoming publication of the Korean translation of SEMANTIC WEB for the WORKING ONTOLOGIST. This publication addresses the growing market in Asia in general, and Korea in particular, for Semantic Web applications and technology. Expected release date is Dec 15, 2008.

About The Authors

Dean Allemang is the Chief Scientist at TopQuadrant, Inc. - the first company in the United States devoted to Semantic Web consulting, training and products. He co-developed (along with Jim Hendler) TopQuadrant's successful Semantic Web training series, which he has been delivering on a regular basis since 2003.

Dr. Allemang explores more about the Semantic Web on his blog.

Jim Hendler is the Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also serves as the associate director of the Web Science Research Initiative, headquartered at MIT. He has authored approximately 200 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, agent-based computing, and high performance processing.

Further information is available on Dr. Hendler's biographical page.